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 Saudi Arabia and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar 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 Q65 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Remains,
Zapp,
The Raincoats,
Robert Hood,
Flamin' Groovies,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Juan Atkins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Todd Rundgren,
The Selecter,
Minutemen,
Rites of Spring,
New Age Steppers,
Colin Newman,
Drexciya,
The Fire Engines,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Deadbeat,
Gong,
Khruangbin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fluxion,
Ice-T,
Bang On A Can,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
These Immortal Souls,
Sonic Youth,
Soul Sonic Force,
Unrelated Segments,
Zero Boys,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kas Product,
The Associates,
Ituana,
Matthew Bourne,
The Electric Prunes,
Fatback Band,
Piero Umiliani,
The Real Kids,
Ten City,
Nirvana,
Soul II Soul,
The Fall,
Camouflage,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Music Machine,
Anakelly,
Wally Richardson,
Camberwell Now,
Donald Byrd,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lou Reed,
Yaz,
Magazine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.