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 Slovakia and from Bremen.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 ABBA to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Colin Newman,
Quando Quango,
Vladislav Delay,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bobby Byrd,
Kas Product,
Pagans,
Bang On A Can,
Groovy Waters,
Ice-T,
the Slits,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Laurel Aitken,
Patti Smith,
The Beau Brummels,
Gastr Del Sol,
Urselle,
Dorothy Ashby,
Skarface,
Fad Gadget,
Infiniti,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lindisfarne,
The Motions,
Faraquet,
Peter and Kerry,
Harry Pussy,
Sparks,
Unrelated Segments,
Neu!,
Lou Reed,
EPMD,
Scion,
Nils Olav,
Gregory Isaacs,
Clear Light,
The Golliwogs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Animal Collective,
Avey Tare,
Jeff Mills,
Rapeman,
Gong,
The Dave Clark Five,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Silicon Teens,
ABC,
Con Funk Shun,
The Angels of Light,
The Sound,
Jimmy McGriff,
Little Man,
U.S. Maple,
Crispy Ambulance,
Nirvana,
Drexciya,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.