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 Slovenia and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and New York.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Desert Stars to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
8 Eyed Spy,
Qualms,
Absolute Body Control,
Second Layer,
Funky Four + One,
Minny Pops,
Minutemen,
Fad Gadget,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
La Düsseldorf,
Alton Ellis,
Camouflage,
The Associates,
Harry Pussy,
JFA,
David McCallum,
Chris & Cosey,
Radiohead,
The Barracudas,
The Pretty Things,
Colin Newman,
Swell Maps,
Pagans,
Gichy Dan,
Pulsallama,
Ossler,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Godley & Creme,
Aaron Thompson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
10cc,
The Remains,
World's Most,
Hardrive,
Eli Mardock,
Monolake,
ABC,
The Misunderstood,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gong,
Grandmaster Flash,
Todd Rundgren,
The Black Dice,
Bronski Beat,
ABBA,
Steve Hackett,
A Certain Ratio,
Boogie Down Productions,
AZ,
Joy Division,
Heaven 17,
Mr. Review,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Buzzcocks,
Lower 48,
Alphaville,
Lakeside,
Metal Thangz,
Ken Boothe,
Silicon Teens,
kango's stein massive,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.