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 Georgia and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Radiohead to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
New Age Steppers,
Slick Rick,
The Grass Roots,
Unwound,
Gerry Rafferty,
Thompson Twins,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bauhaus,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Blake Baxter,
F. McDonald,
Mo-Dettes,
Bill Wells,
Black Pus,
Marine Girls,
Darondo,
Matthew Bourne,
Grauzone,
Bronski Beat,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Pop Group,
Depeche Mode,
Quantec,
Byron Stingily,
Jeff Lynne,
The Last Poets,
Sixth Finger,
Neu!,
The Seeds,
the Germs,
T. Rex,
Fugazi,
CMW,
Parry Music,
Swell Maps,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Music Machine,
Robert Görl,
Scan 7,
The Leaves,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Doors,
The Misunderstood,
Von Mondo,
Wally Richardson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Faraquet,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Soulsonic Force,
Brick,
John Lydon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
China Crisis,
A Certain Ratio,
Arab on Radar,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.