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 Australia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron 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 Guru Guru to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
These Immortal Souls,
The Slits,
Boogie Down Productions,
Peter and Kerry,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Juan Atkins,
China Crisis,
Animal Collective,
X-Ray Spex,
kango's stein massive,
Joensuu 1685,
Fatback Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Human League,
Janne Schatter,
Delon & Dalcan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eli Mardock,
Ponytail,
Scion,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mars,
Bootsy Collins,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eric B and Rakim,
Moebius,
Black Pus,
Eric Dolphy,
Television Personalities,
Hasil Adkins,
Funky Four + One,
Half Japanese,
Parry Music,
Aaron Thompson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Khruangbin,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Sonics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Shoche,
Electric Light Orchestra,
the Swans,
Supertramp,
Sonic Youth,
John Lydon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mark Hollis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Howard Jones,
Ten City,
Hardrive,
Cluster,
Monks,
Radio Birdman,
Easy Going,
Sexual Harrassment,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.