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 Switzerland 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kas Product to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Wally Richardson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Young Rascals,
Babytalk,
Procol Harum,
Gang Green,
The Cramps,
The Buckinghams,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Joe Finger,
Livin' Joy,
The Sound,
Eli Mardock,
Visage,
Pussy Galore,
In Retrospect,
Ludus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rekid,
Traffic Nightmare,
Porter Ricks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
China Crisis,
Deakin,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Quadrant,
The Star Department,
These Immortal Souls,
John Foxx,
Albert Ayler,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Barracudas,
Aswad,
Metal Thangz,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Neu!,
Con Funk Shun,
Main Source,
Motorama,
Nik Kershaw,
Eddi Front,
Intrusion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bauhaus,
Tres Demented,
The Divine Comedy,
Mantronix,
Amon Düül,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
K-Klass,
Black Flag,
Erasure,
Ten City,
The Monochrome Set,
New Order,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amazonics,
U.S. Maple,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.