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 Argentina and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jesus and Mary Chain to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Soft Cell,
Vladislav Delay,
The Slackers,
Monolake,
The Saints,
Warren Ellis,
a-ha,
Wasted Youth,
Model 500,
Shoche,
John Cale,
Sonic Youth,
Country Teasers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quantec,
Erykah Badu,
Smog,
David Axelrod,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gang of Four,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Outsiders,
The Moody Blues,
Kaleidoscope,
Echospace,
Average White Band,
Zero Boys,
Janne Schatter,
Sugar Minott,
Boogie Down Productions,
One Last Wish,
Eve St. Jones,
Ituana,
Grey Daturas,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Y Pants,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Smiths,
Donny Hathaway,
Bootsy Collins,
Hoover,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dorothy Ashby,
Glenn Branca,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pantytec,
Zapp,
Wings,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Pretty Things,
New Age Steppers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Faraquet,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Guru Guru,
X-102,
Bobby Womack,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.