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 Korea South and from Accra.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lille.
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 Groovy Waters to the jazz 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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 48th St. Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Morten Harket,
Juan Atkins,
Isaac Hayes,
the Bar-Kays,
Quando Quango,
Kool Moe Dee,
Technova,
Johnny Osbourne,
Monolake,
Sixth Finger,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eric Copeland,
Negative Approach,
Gregory Isaacs,
The American Breed,
Kaleidoscope,
Cameo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Royal Trux,
Mo-Dettes,
OOIOO,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Golliwogs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Flash Fearless,
Scion,
Barbara Tucker,
The Modern Lovers,
Wings,
Adolescents,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Charles Mingus,
Erasure,
Bush Tetras,
Nico,
Bob Dylan,
The Doors,
Ossler,
The Techniques,
The Young Rascals,
Joe Smooth,
Glenn Branca,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Offenders,
K-Klass,
Hot Snakes,
Masters at Work,
The Star Department,
Groovy Waters,
The Sonics,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crime,
Public Enemy,
Angry Samoans,
Scrapy,
Aaron Thompson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rotary Connection,
Banda Bassotti,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.