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 Vietnam and from Jakarta.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Zapp to the crunk 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Japan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Connie Case,
Robert Görl,
Cluster,
Deepchord,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gong,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Toasters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mars,
The Sonics,
Matthew Bourne,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Scan 7,
The Divine Comedy,
Yusef Lateef,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Quando Quango,
Warren Ellis,
Masters at Work,
Tubeway Army,
Janne Schatter,
Dual Sessions,
John Lydon,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Graham Central Station,
Zapp,
Ossler,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Parry Music,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sonic Youth,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Derrick May,
Wasted Youth,
Max Romeo,
Marshall Jefferson,
Intrusion,
Suburban Knight,
The Blues Magoos,
The Fall,
Gastr Del Sol,
Echospace,
Bluetip,
kango's stein massive,
Zero Boys,
The Buckinghams,
Minor Threat,
DNA,
Sarah Menescal,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.