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 Ukraine and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe 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 Soul Sonic Force to the electroclash 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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Arab on Radar,
T.S.O.L.,
The J.B.'s,
Andrew Hill,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Altered Images,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
L. Decosne,
June of 44,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Heaven 17,
Maurizio,
La Düsseldorf,
Kurtis Blow,
Y Pants,
Nas,
Warsaw,
Kayak,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nils Olav,
Rekid,
The Knickerbockers,
The Residents,
Los Fastidios,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Negative Approach,
Chrome,
Gichy Dan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scott Walker,
John Holt,
Sunsets and Hearts,
U.S. Maple,
The Blackbyrds,
Magazine,
Quando Quango,
K-Klass,
Robert Görl,
The Litter,
Jandek,
Absolute Body Control,
Whodini,
Yaz,
Fear,
Ultra Naté,
Yazoo,
Kaleidoscope,
Lungfish,
One Last Wish,
Wasted Youth,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Quadrant,
The Gladiators,
Mandrill,
Terry Callier,
Thee Headcoats,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Faraquet,
Sparks,
the Soft Cell,
Supertramp,
The Leaves,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane.
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.