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 Zimbabwe and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Monolake to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
The Pop Group,
Nation of Ulysses,
Zapp,
Gong,
Hardrive,
Wire,
Vainqueur,
Stereo Dub,
Cluster,
Rakim,
Model 500,
FM Einheit,
the Human League,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Alton Ellis,
Accadde A,
Livin' Joy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sex Pistols,
Minutemen,
Archie Shepp,
Deakin,
Lakeside,
The Doobie Brothers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nirvana,
Neu!,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kevin Saunderson,
Letta Mbulu,
Derrick Morgan,
Ken Boothe,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Cowsills,
Youth Brigade,
Rosa Yemen,
Radiohead,
Zero Boys,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bobby Sherman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dead Boys,
Con Funk Shun,
Sound Behaviour,
The Move,
Slave,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Q65,
Los Fastidios,
Janne Schatter,
Scion,
48th St. Collective,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Infiniti,
The Black Dice,
Scratch Acid,
Camberwell Now,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fatback Band,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.