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 Russia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 arpeggiator 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 Zero Boys to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bobby Womack,
LL Cool J,
Jimmy McGriff,
UT,
Maleditus Sound,
48th St. Collective,
Judy Mowatt,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fugs,
Blossom Toes,
Supertramp,
Cecil Taylor,
Animal Collective,
Derrick Morgan,
The Tremeloes,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Vogues,
The Barracudas,
John Cale,
Jerry's Kids,
FM Einheit,
Shoche,
Essential Logic,
Wolf Eyes,
Masters at Work,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Donny Hathaway,
Visage,
Basic Channel,
Wire,
Anthony Braxton,
Suburban Knight,
Arthur Verocai,
Piero Umiliani,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Zapp,
Rakim,
Barbara Tucker,
Roy Ayers,
Barrington Levy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sandy B,
The Cure,
10cc,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Birthday Party,
Bad Manners,
Excepter,
Dual Sessions,
Schoolly D,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Germs,
The Star Department,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed,
Moebius,
The Pretty Things,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.