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 Estonia and from Salvador.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the snare 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 Suburban Knight to the techno 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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
Idris Muhammad,
Suburban Knight,
Accadde A,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Divine Comedy,
a-ha,
Buzzcocks,
Bootsy Collins,
Theoretical Girls,
Man Eating Sloth,
Tres Demented,
Robert Wyatt,
Grauzone,
Urselle,
Moebius,
Patti Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kerri Chandler,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Bar-Kays,
Lyres,
The Trojans,
Dave Gahan,
Michelle Simonal,
cv313,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Danielle Patucci,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mojo Men,
Loose Ends,
Echospace,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Slave,
Saccharine Trust,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Happenings,
Camouflage,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scientists,
Robert Görl,
Peter and Kerry,
The Last Poets,
Rufus Thomas,
Funky Four + One,
Iggy Pop,
R.M.O.,
Jandek,
Arab on Radar,
Adolescents,
Letta Mbulu,
The Blackbyrds,
The Beau Brummels,
Los Fastidios,
Rod Modell,
Derrick Morgan,
Judy Mowatt,
Sparks,
Bob Dylan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Section 25,
Harmonia,
Prince Buster,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.