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 Tonga and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sound Behaviour to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
The Gap Band,
Tommy Roe,
Second Layer,
The Toasters,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gang of Four,
The Move,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Magma,
World's Most,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bootsy Collins,
Japan,
Roxy Music,
Cal Tjader,
Duran Duran,
Easy Going,
H. Thieme,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eve St. Jones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Arcadia,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bill Near,
Henry Cow,
Au Pairs,
Gichy Dan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Faust,
Public Enemy,
Ponytail,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Deakin,
The Techniques,
Roxette,
Outsiders,
Minutemen,
Alphaville,
Kaleidoscope,
the Germs,
Pylon,
Buzzcocks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Beau Brummels,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Q and Not U,
Infiniti,
Fifty Foot Hose,
the Sonics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mandrill,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Arab on Radar,
Blossom Toes,
Spoonie Gee,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Agent Orange,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Shuggie Otis,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.