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 Bulgaria and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 mellotron 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 Althea and Donna to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Maurizio,
Cal Tjader,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Icehouse,
The United States of America,
ABBA,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dual Sessions,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang Starr,
Faust,
kango's stein massive,
Sparks,
The Vogues,
Aural Exciters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Goldenarms,
Fugazi,
The Associates,
Sex Pistols,
Theoretical Girls,
Eden Ahbez,
Amon Düül,
Marshall Jefferson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Busters,
Wolf Eyes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Radiohead,
Warsaw,
Gong,
The Zeros,
Negative Approach,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Liliput,
The Kinks,
The Standells,
Clear Light,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hashim,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Monochrome Set,
Panda Bear,
The Stooges,
Reagan Youth,
Japan,
Gang of Four,
Camouflage,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Human League,
Stereo Dub,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Hot Snakes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Pretty Things,
Brand Nubian,
Essential Logic,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Anakelly,
Pharoah Sanders,
Niagra, Niagra, Niagra, Niagra.
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.