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 Croatia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Sao Paulo.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Nik Kershaw to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
DJ Sneak,
Lightning Bolt,
Boredoms,
Visage,
Robert Wyatt,
Nirvana,
The Pretty Things,
Unwound,
Leonard Cohen,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bill Near,
Cluster,
Quantec,
Skaos,
Niagra,
Kas Product,
Colin Newman,
John Cale,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erasure,
Eric Dolphy,
E-Dancer,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Darondo,
Godley & Creme,
Supertramp,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sun City Girls,
Maurizio,
Country Teasers,
Procol Harum,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Max Romeo,
Hashim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
10cc,
Sound Behaviour,
Lungfish,
Funky Four + One,
Letta Mbulu,
Jimmy McGriff,
Silicon Teens,
Popol Vuh,
The Wake,
Radio Birdman,
Lyres,
David McCallum,
The Smiths,
Robert Görl,
The Vogues,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scan 7,
Lou Reed,
Bootsy Collins,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Simply Red,
Rekid,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.