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 Tonga and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Q and Not U to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Pagans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Basic Channel,
The Kinks,
The Invisible,
Davy DMX,
The Flesh Eaters,
Soul II Soul,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Minny Pops,
KRS-One,
The Gories,
Skriet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Velvet Underground,
the Slits,
Flipper,
Suburban Knight,
The Detroit Cobras,
Freddie Wadling,
Swell Maps,
The J.B.'s,
Danielle Patucci,
U.S. Maple,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hot Snakes,
Sixth Finger,
Joensuu 1685,
Rites of Spring,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mantronix,
Frankie Knuckles,
Icehouse,
Nils Olav,
Urselle,
Ohio Players,
Pierre Henry,
Neu!,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bad Manners,
Rhythm & Sound,
Hashim,
Juan Atkins,
Mo-Dettes,
Guru Guru,
Scion,
The Slackers,
Iggy Pop,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scan 7,
Piero Umiliani,
the Association,
Isaac Hayes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Erykah Badu,
Michelle Simonal,
Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow.
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.