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 Russia and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 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 Severed Heads to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Radiohead,
the Slits,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Harry Pussy,
MC5,
A Certain Ratio,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Monolake,
James Chance & The Contortions,
D'Angelo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Thee Headcoats,
Reagan Youth,
Black Sheep,
Faust,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Godley & Creme,
Ronan,
the Germs,
Country Teasers,
Hasil Adkins,
The Slackers,
In Retrospect,
Bronski Beat,
Theoretical Girls,
Alison Limerick,
The Skatalites,
the Sonics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sexual Harrassment,
Accadde A,
Ultravox,
Lakeside,
Gong,
The Leaves,
Model 500,
Chrome,
Delon & Dalcan,
Circle Jerks,
Delta 5,
Chris Corsano,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Moody Blues,
Depeche Mode,
Pantytec,
Sight & Sound,
Gabor Szabo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bluetip,
the Association,
Outsiders,
Mission of Burma,
the Swans,
Anthony Braxton,
Lungfish,
Lindisfarne,
Echospace,
Newcleus,
Clear Light,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.