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 Portugal and from Lagos.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All The Victims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Robert Hood,
Lightning Bolt,
Stockholm Monsters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Scratch Acid,
Jeff Lynne,
Sparks,
The Gap Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bush Tetras,
Scan 7,
Bronski Beat,
the Normal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Patti Smith,
Derrick May,
X-101,
Oblivians,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Five Americans,
Mad Mike,
Godley & Creme,
Johnny Clarke,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eric Dolphy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nik Kershaw,
Lungfish,
Nils Olav,
Darondo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Loose Ends,
Minor Threat,
Eden Ahbez,
Dave Gahan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Youth Brigade,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bobby Womack,
John Holt,
Dual Sessions,
Morten Harket,
The Grass Roots,
Flash Fearless,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rotary Connection,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Raincoats,
JFA,
Gichy Dan,
The Flesh Eaters,
Connie Case,
Ludus,
Yusef Lateef,
Peter and Kerry,
Aloha Tigers,
Nick Fraelich,
Bizarre Inc.,
Negative Approach,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.