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 Georgia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Fire Engines to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
The Leaves,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Echospace,
Yaz,
Anakelly,
Derrick May,
Electric Prunes,
Minutemen,
Scrapy,
Bad Manners,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lakeside,
Gang Green,
Goldenarms,
Sunsets and Hearts,
X-Ray Spex,
Hoover,
The Five Americans,
Underground Resistance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Buckinghams,
Minor Threat,
Arthur Verocai,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Patti Smith,
Soft Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The New Christs,
Little Man,
Andrew Hill,
ABC,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Doors,
Deadbeat,
Aloha Tigers,
Dead Boys,
Lower 48,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joensuu 1685,
Pantytec,
EPMD,
The Smiths,
Sam Rivers,
Stereo Dub,
MC5,
Joe Smooth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marc Almond,
Country Teasers,
The Victims,
The Blues Magoos,
Mars,
The Residents,
Vainqueur,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bob Dylan,
ABBA,
Jeff Lynne,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.