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 Denmark and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Smiths to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Ten City,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Standells,
Skarface,
the Germs,
Youth Brigade,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Victims,
OOIOO,
Second Layer,
Talk Talk,
The Gap Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Metal Thangz,
Dark Day,
La Düsseldorf,
The Evens,
The Walker Brothers,
Alphaville,
Henry Cow,
The Electric Prunes,
The Beau Brummels,
Arthur Verocai,
Qualms,
Mark Hollis,
Banda Bassotti,
Main Source,
The Slits,
Ultra Naté,
David Axelrod,
Supertramp,
Steve Hackett,
cv313,
Wings,
Jimmy McGriff,
MDC,
The Fuzztones,
X-Ray Spex,
Blancmange,
T. Rex,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sugar Minott,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Litter,
Section 25,
Pagans,
Gang Green,
New Age Steppers,
Piero Umiliani,
Flash Fearless,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Yusef Lateef,
Letta Mbulu,
the Human League,
Suburban Knight,
Motorama,
Excepter,
Kayak,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.