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 Maldives and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin 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 Scientists to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Television Personalities,
Cal Tjader,
Angry Samoans,
Shuggie Otis,
Au Pairs,
Crash Course in Science,
Brass Construction,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Andrew Hill,
Prince Buster,
Ten City,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Raincoats,
Hashim,
Sugar Minott,
Intrusion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Royal Trux,
Monks,
The Trojans,
The Gap Band,
The Moody Blues,
Ludus,
Livin' Joy,
Harry Pussy,
Inner City,
Hasil Adkins,
Youth Brigade,
Bill Wells,
Underground Resistance,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Grass Roots,
The United States of America,
LL Cool J,
Public Image Ltd.,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barrington Levy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
AZ,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Warren Ellis,
The Red Krayola,
Spandau Ballet,
DJ Style,
Mark Hollis,
Technova,
Donny Hathaway,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Thee Headcoats,
Fluxion,
Amon Düül,
The Modern Lovers,
Lakeside,
Saccharine Trust,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Terry Callier,
Schoolly D,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ituana,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.