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 Cyprus and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro 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 Rod Modell to the funk 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Das Ding record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence 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?
UT,
The Techniques,
Jerry's Kids,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ludus,
EPMD,
The Sound,
Barclay James Harvest,
Vladislav Delay,
Reagan Youth,
Gichy Dan,
T. Rex,
Animal Collective,
Matthew Bourne,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
D'Angelo,
Kaleidoscope,
Sandy B,
The Sonics,
Alison Limerick,
Sexual Harrassment,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Roxy Music,
Kas Product,
Subhumans,
The Martian,
the Sonics,
JFA,
Monks,
Dennis Brown,
the Human League,
The Dirtbombs,
Jawbox,
the Germs,
Rosa Yemen,
Arthur Verocai,
The Evens,
Girls At Our Best!,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Pretty Things,
Nick Fraelich,
Delta 5,
Spandau Ballet,
The Fortunes,
La Düsseldorf,
Trumans Water,
The Moleskins,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ken Boothe,
Big Daddy Kane,
Public Enemy,
The Trojans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Infiniti,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ultravox,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kurtis Blow,
Kerrie Biddell,
Althea and Donna,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Terrestrial Tones,
Barbara Tucker,
The Remains, The Remains, The Remains, The Remains.
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.