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 Micronesia and from Accra.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Rhythm & Sound to the grime 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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Black Sheep,
Organ,
cv313,
Rotary Connection,
Little Man,
The Trojans,
Hot Snakes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marcia Griffiths,
Curtis Mayfield,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
10cc,
Crime,
Suicide,
The Gories,
Bluetip,
Stetsasonic,
Scientists,
Index,
Delon & Dalcan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Litter,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eric Dolphy,
Jandek,
Quando Quango,
Quantec,
Laurel Aitken,
Stockholm Monsters,
Depeche Mode,
The Walker Brothers,
Deadbeat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bronski Beat,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Real Kids,
Amazonics,
The Sonics,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eve St. Jones,
The Knickerbockers,
FM Einheit,
Talk Talk,
Man Eating Sloth,
EPMD,
Lucky Dragons,
OOIOO,
Lee Hazlewood,
Thee Headcoats,
The Gap Band,
The Golliwogs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Cecil Taylor,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lower 48,
DJ Style,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Toasters,
Barry Ungar,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.