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 Mongolia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro 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 Delon & Dalcan to the grime 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Letta Mbulu,
Pere Ubu,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pet Shop Boys,
Subhumans,
The Fire Engines,
Ossler,
Scion,
the Association,
Wire,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Freddie Wadling,
The Move,
The Angels of Light,
Boredoms,
The Index,
Deepchord,
Moby Grape,
Faust,
H. Thieme,
The Mojo Men,
The Litter,
Robert Görl,
Shuggie Otis,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fear,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Magazine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
New Order,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Blancmange,
Infiniti,
The Motions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sonics,
Barry Ungar,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mantronix,
The New Christs,
The United States of America,
Sister Nancy,
The Durutti Column,
Eurythmics,
Pagans,
Procol Harum,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marine Girls,
The Red Krayola,
Dawn Penn,
Adolescents,
Q65,
Terrestrial Tones,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Traffic Nightmare,
Danielle Patucci,
Kenny Larkin,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.