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 Bulgaria and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Hashim to the grime 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Selecter,
Loose Ends,
The Dave Clark Five,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rites of Spring,
Gabor Szabo,
Stiv Bators,
Little Man,
Tim Buckley,
cv313,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gong,
Essential Logic,
The Seeds,
Surgeon,
The Stooges,
The Smoke,
Trumans Water,
Pole,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fugazi,
Absolute Body Control,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Misunderstood,
The Cure,
Sight & Sound,
Marmalade,
the Human League,
The Techniques,
The Skatalites,
Bronski Beat,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Groovy Waters,
Peter and Kerry,
Quantec,
Rekid,
Brick,
The Standells,
OOIOO,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Y Pants,
Thompson Twins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
KRS-One,
kango's stein massive,
Joensuu 1685,
Nation of Ulysses,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Swans,
Masters at Work,
June Days,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Boredoms,
The Happenings,
Ralphi Rosario,
John Coltrane,
Radiohead,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Schoolly D,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eli Mardock,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.