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 Grenada and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 güiro 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 Lou Reed to the electroclash 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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fuzztones,
Rotary Connection,
The Stooges,
Mission of Burma,
Chrome,
The Divine Comedy,
Janne Schatter,
Nico,
Joe Smooth,
The Names,
Judy Mowatt,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
June of 44,
Jesper Dahlback,
DJ Style,
Lalo Schifrin,
Little Man,
Underground Resistance,
Lakeside,
The Trojans,
the Slits,
Sex Pistols,
Maleditus Sound,
Half Japanese,
Eric Copeland,
Henry Cow,
Wasted Youth,
Mark Hollis,
The Zeros,
Cluster,
Crime,
The Litter,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
One Last Wish,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Blackbyrds,
China Crisis,
Idris Muhammad,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Thompson Twins,
Ken Boothe,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camberwell Now,
The Skatalites,
Lightning Bolt,
Intrusion,
Soul II Soul,
Ponytail,
Funkadelic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Archie Shepp,
The Angels of Light,
The Doors,
The Slackers,
Vainqueur,
Gang Green,
Erykah Badu,
Kayak,
Laurel Aitken,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.