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 Fiji and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 organ 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 Black Pus to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
Joyce Sims,
Big Daddy Kane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Niagra,
Joe Finger,
Erykah Badu,
Aural Exciters,
The Barracudas,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Mojo Men,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Audionom,
Pulsallama,
Dave Gahan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sparks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Second Layer,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eddi Front,
The Young Rascals,
OOIOO,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pierre Henry,
Popol Vuh,
Rites of Spring,
Scan 7,
Angry Samoans,
Monolake,
Bill Wells,
The Blues Magoos,
The Evens,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fugazi,
Crooked Eye,
Ralphi Rosario,
Piero Umiliani,
Dual Sessions,
ABBA,
The Associates,
La Düsseldorf,
The Toasters,
Ice-T,
Nico,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Half Japanese,
Warsaw,
L. Decosne,
Reuben Wilson,
Cecil Taylor,
Mission of Burma,
Young Marble Giants,
Matthew Bourne,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Erasure,
Minnie Riperton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.