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 Madagascar and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Mission of Burma to the techno 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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
The Human League,
Peter and Kerry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Associates,
Eric Copeland,
The Fuzztones,
Tim Buckley,
World's Most,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ituana,
Robert Görl,
Wally Richardson,
The Invisible,
Bobby Sherman,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Derrick May,
The Smiths,
Minnie Riperton,
The Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cowsills,
In Retrospect,
Khruangbin,
The Gories,
Absolute Body Control,
Simply Red,
Cymande,
Bauhaus,
Negative Approach,
Vainqueur,
Juan Atkins,
Mark Hollis,
Young Marble Giants,
Junior Murvin,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Jacques Brel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Banda Bassotti,
Mad Mike,
Black Bananas,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
One Last Wish,
Henry Cow,
June Days,
Excepter,
The Martian,
The Fall,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Skaos,
Aloha Tigers,
Panda Bear,
Cal Tjader,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
T.S.O.L.,
The Wake,
Dual Sessions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.