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 Croatia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 guitar 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 Erasure to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe 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?
Susan Cadogan,
Metal Thangz,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Basic Channel,
The Trojans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kas Product,
The Velvet Underground,
Y Pants,
Byron Stingily,
Saccharine Trust,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Associates,
The Alarm Clocks,
Roxy Music,
Marmalade,
Circle Jerks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scratch Acid,
The Blues Magoos,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Young Marble Giants,
Ornette Coleman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jacob Miller,
Aural Exciters,
Wire,
Tropical Tobacco,
James White and The Blacks,
Connie Case,
Icehouse,
Sexual Harrassment,
MDC,
One Last Wish,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Evens,
Yusef Lateef,
The Seeds,
DJ Sneak,
Zapp,
The Techniques,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Foxx,
Robert Görl,
Frankie Knuckles,
Josef K,
Deadbeat,
Funkadelic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cybotron,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
48th St. Collective,
Brothers Johnson,
The Walker Brothers,
Kaleidoscope,
Tubeway Army,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Siglo XX,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.