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 Slovakia and from Edmonton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Gang Green to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Main Source,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Au Pairs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Surgeon,
Albert Ayler,
The Mummies,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neil Young,
Subhumans,
Bob Dylan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Piero Umiliani,
Whodini,
The Fall,
Lakeside,
Metal Thangz,
Sam Rivers,
Flipper,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Davy DMX,
Suicide,
X-102,
Hoover,
Quantec,
Minor Threat,
Negative Approach,
Eden Ahbez,
Grey Daturas,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bauhaus,
Drexciya,
Derrick Morgan,
A Certain Ratio,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alice Coltrane,
Qualms,
Circle Jerks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shoche,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Steve Hackett,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Model 500,
Danielle Patucci,
Gichy Dan,
Crooked Eye,
Soft Machine,
Dual Sessions,
Dark Day,
KRS-One,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kevin Saunderson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Knickerbockers,
The Victims,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Motorama,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.