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 Serbia and from Copenhagen.
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 Lyon and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Rhythm & Sound to the rock 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 The Count Five. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eli Mardock,
The Invisible,
The Evens,
10cc,
Matthew Halsall,
Alton Ellis,
Joensuu 1685,
The New Christs,
David McCallum,
Flipper,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Music Machine,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Camberwell Now,
Urselle,
The Black Dice,
Liliput,
Smog,
Howard Jones,
Morten Harket,
Letta Mbulu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Silicon Teens,
Michelle Simonal,
Essential Logic,
Dorothy Ashby,
UT,
Oneida,
Clear Light,
Can,
Althea and Donna,
Arthur Verocai,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lou Christie,
Nas,
Jerry's Kids,
DNA,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Monks,
The Last Poets,
FM Einheit,
Index,
Desert Stars,
Nick Fraelich,
Junior Murvin,
U.S. Maple,
The Barracudas,
Pet Shop Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moss Icon,
Stereo Dub,
Rod Modell,
Grauzone,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nico,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fugazi,
DJ Style,
Bob Dylan,
Sound Behaviour,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.