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 Ireland and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Yusef Lateef to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lyres,
The Motions,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Duran Duran,
Michelle Simonal,
DNA,
Drexciya,
Blake Baxter,
Arab on Radar,
The Cowsills,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scan 7,
Ultimate Spinach,
Don Cherry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Liliput,
Visage,
Camouflage,
Blossom Toes,
Wings,
Kool Moe Dee,
James White and The Blacks,
The Names,
Dual Sessions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Los Fastidios,
FM Einheit,
the Slits,
David Axelrod,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gang Starr,
Brick,
The Toasters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Robert Hood,
Harmonia,
Quadrant,
Loose Ends,
Marc Almond,
Godley & Creme,
The Fugs,
Pussy Galore,
Ronnie Foster,
Colin Newman,
Soft Machine,
E-Dancer,
MDC,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Isaac Hayes,
The Slits,
DJ Sneak,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Susan Cadogan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang of Four,
Hot Snakes,
Crooked Eye,
a-ha,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.