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 Portugal and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Shanghai.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Walker Brothers to the disco 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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Ludus,
Whodini,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Sound,
Soft Machine,
Organ,
Jandek,
The Zeros,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ronnie Foster,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Hashim,
Loose Ends,
Bizarre Inc.,
Flash Fearless,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Unrelated Segments,
Yaz,
Rotary Connection,
James White and The Blacks,
Tubeway Army,
AZ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June Days,
Sun Ra,
John Cale,
Section 25,
Ice-T,
The Black Dice,
Circle Jerks,
The Alarm Clocks,
Josef K,
Eddi Front,
Jawbox,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lee Hazlewood,
Black Moon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Monks,
Tears for Fears,
CMW,
Eurythmics,
Ultravox,
Marine Girls,
These Immortal Souls,
Wings,
Grandmaster Flash,
Flipper,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Reuben Wilson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
New Order,
The Evens,
Dave Gahan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Human League,
Traffic Nightmare,
Mandrill,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.