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 Ethiopia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Harmonia to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 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 linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Fluxion,
Moebius,
Morten Harket,
Deakin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stereo Dub,
Monolake,
AZ,
Q and Not U,
The Gories,
Dave Gahan,
Michelle Simonal,
Metal Thangz,
Popol Vuh,
Make Up,
8 Eyed Spy,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Evens,
Barry Ungar,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jeru the Damaja,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Donny Hathaway,
The Star Department,
John Cale,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Organ,
The Slits,
Banda Bassotti,
Underground Resistance,
MC5,
Faust,
The Shadows of Knight,
Robert Wyatt,
Todd Rundgren,
The Motions,
Sexual Harrassment,
Hoover,
Von Mondo,
Wire,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Little Man,
Scientists,
A Certain Ratio,
The Buckinghams,
Model 500,
Adolescents,
The Dirtbombs,
The Standells,
Henry Cow,
The Barracudas,
EPMD,
John Lydon,
Bluetip,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rosa Yemen,
Gregory Isaacs,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.