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 Bhutan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin 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 Q65 to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sandy B,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Erykah Badu,
Peter and Kerry,
Max Romeo,
Colin Newman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Davy DMX,
Brick,
Black Flag,
Gabor Szabo,
Popol Vuh,
The Star Department,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Swans,
Deakin,
Black Moon,
Althea and Donna,
Symarip,
Index,
Pierre Henry,
Sound Behaviour,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Knickerbockers,
Fluxion,
Loose Ends,
Jesper Dahlback,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lightning Bolt,
Banda Bassotti,
Massinfluence,
Amazonics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Roxy Music,
Easy Going,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lou Reed,
Johnny Clarke,
Soft Cell,
The Smiths,
The Index,
Kurtis Blow,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Roy Ayers,
Depeche Mode,
Bush Tetras,
Metal Thangz,
Carl Craig,
Jeff Mills,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Stooges,
Interpol,
Altered Images,
Moby Grape,
Trumans Water,
The Misunderstood,
Con Funk Shun,
Echospace,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.