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 Lithuania and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Calgary.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 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 Mr. Review to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Invisible,
LL Cool J,
Tim Buckley,
Ralphi Rosario,
JFA,
The Busters,
Can,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Young Marble Giants,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Half Japanese,
Average White Band,
Sugar Minott,
The Searchers,
Hoover,
Curtis Mayfield,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sonic Youth,
Tubeway Army,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Suicide,
Model 500,
James White and The Blacks,
Index,
Eden Ahbez,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eric B and Rakim,
D'Angelo,
Brass Construction,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Junior Murvin,
Agitation Free,
The Cramps,
EPMD,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
T.S.O.L.,
The Move,
Eli Mardock,
Barry Ungar,
Man Parrish,
Guru Guru,
Bob Dylan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Slave,
Blake Baxter,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Victims,
Roger Hodgson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Howard Jones,
Japan,
The New Christs,
Marc Almond,
The Pretty Things,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Angels of Light,
The Names,
Scrapy,
the Slits,
Cluster,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.