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 Slovenia and from Jakarta.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Mojo Men to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Von Mondo,
The Smoke,
Amazonics,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Golliwogs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arab on Radar,
Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Easy Going,
Desert Stars,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Red Krayola,
Jacob Miller,
Gong,
Sparks,
The Raincoats,
Little Man,
Barry Ungar,
Masters at Work,
X-101,
Buzzcocks,
Lou Reed,
T. Rex,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rosa Yemen,
The Knickerbockers,
The Index,
Duran Duran,
Pantaleimon,
Brothers Johnson,
Kurtis Blow,
Kayak,
Half Japanese,
Archie Shepp,
Lucky Dragons,
Black Flag,
Massinfluence,
X-102,
Marine Girls,
The Leaves,
Mad Mike,
Motorama,
H. Thieme,
U.S. Maple,
Scratch Acid,
Faust,
The Slits,
Lalann,
Gichy Dan,
Skriet,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Beau Brummels,
The Move,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Roxette,
Mark Hollis,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.