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 Azerbaijan and from Delhi.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pierre Henry to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
The Moleskins,
Ken Boothe,
Delta 5,
Bob Dylan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Golliwogs,
Steve Hackett,
The Names,
Schoolly D,
Electric Prunes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soft Cell,
Bluetip,
Ralphi Rosario,
Funky Four + One,
The Shadows of Knight,
Theoretical Girls,
Man Parrish,
Yazoo,
The New Christs,
Flamin' Groovies,
Boredoms,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Flipper,
Adolescents,
Peter & Gordon,
Saccharine Trust,
Second Layer,
Ultimate Spinach,
Agent Orange,
T.S.O.L.,
Brothers Johnson,
Kayak,
The Pretty Things,
Radiohead,
The Slits,
Arthur Verocai,
Jerry's Kids,
Freddie Wadling,
The Techniques,
Quadrant,
Nas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joyce Sims,
The Smoke,
Fat Boys,
Colin Newman,
Isaac Hayes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pantaleimon,
Grey Daturas,
Zero Boys,
In Retrospect,
the Association,
Suburban Knight,
Arcadia,
Infiniti,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy.
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.