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 Macedonia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pole to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Swans,
Roger Hodgson,
The Leaves,
Ossler,
Morten Harket,
New Order,
F. McDonald,
X-Ray Spex,
Oneida,
Ultravox,
Accadde A,
Charles Mingus,
The Raincoats,
Gang Green,
Unrelated Segments,
Patti Smith,
Young Marble Giants,
The Evens,
The Slackers,
Q and Not U,
Section 25,
Yazoo,
The Misunderstood,
Silicon Teens,
Intrusion,
June Days,
Mandrill,
Sex Pistols,
Japan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Thee Headcoats,
Symarip,
Tears for Fears,
Excepter,
Kayak,
T. Rex,
Qualms,
The Count Five,
Thompson Twins,
X-102,
Sound Behaviour,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Organ,
Dawn Penn,
Essential Logic,
Darondo,
Boredoms,
Don Cherry,
Cecil Taylor,
The Busters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Altered Images,
The Cure,
Grandmaster Flash,
Half Japanese,
OOIOO,
Adolescents,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wire,
The Human League,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.