Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Uganda and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Joey Negro to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Bowie record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Youth Brigade,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Womack,
Vainqueur,
The Gap Band,
Sparks,
Arcadia,
Brass Construction,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Spandau Ballet,
Nils Olav,
Fear,
Reagan Youth,
10cc,
Maleditus Sound,
June of 44,
Gil Scott Heron,
OOIOO,
Piero Umiliani,
Joe Finger,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Cowsills,
Peter and Kerry,
Terry Callier,
Derrick May,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camouflage,
Avey Tare,
Scrapy,
Symarip,
Hot Snakes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mantronix,
Kayak,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Happenings,
Bobby Byrd,
Clear Light,
E-Dancer,
The Names,
UT,
Boz Scaggs,
Jerry's Kids,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Index,
Cybotron,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lou Christie,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eric Copeland,
Pagans,
PIL,
Yellowson,
The Five Americans,
Johnny Clarke,
Ronnie Foster,
Ken Boothe,
John Foxx,
Amon Düül,
Skarface,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.