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 Albania and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 arpeggiator 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the grunge 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Joe Finger,
The Saints,
Sister Nancy,
Janne Schatter,
Nils Olav,
Half Japanese,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ohio Players,
Sonny Sharrock,
Skriet,
Gang of Four,
Kevin Saunderson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Roger Hodgson,
John Cale,
Crispy Ambulance,
Unrelated Segments,
Urselle,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yellowson,
Rotary Connection,
Anthony Braxton,
Quantec,
Eric Dolphy,
Eurythmics,
Aloha Tigers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Delta 5,
Rod Modell,
John Holt,
CMW,
Bad Manners,
Cheater Slicks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Excepter,
Audionom,
Pet Shop Boys,
Skaos,
Tim Buckley,
Todd Terry,
MDC,
Suicide,
The United States of America,
The Last Poets,
Joensuu 1685,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Five Americans,
The Smiths,
Todd Rundgren,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sonic Youth,
Zero Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
Piero Umiliani,
The Gories,
Wire,
Scott Walker,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.