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 Hungary and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Section 25 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Boz Scaggs,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scott Walker,
Kaleidoscope,
Scion,
Kas Product,
The Gories,
Matthew Bourne,
The Slackers,
Thee Headcoats,
The Mojo Men,
DNA,
Radiohead,
Swell Maps,
Lebanon Hanover,
Drexciya,
Grey Daturas,
Kevin Saunderson,
John Lydon,
Newcleus,
This Heat,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gun Club,
Television,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ultra Naté,
Vladislav Delay,
The Fire Engines,
The Toasters,
Cymande,
Television Personalities,
Warren Ellis,
Parry Music,
Derrick May,
It's A Beautiful Day,
OOIOO,
Aural Exciters,
Second Layer,
Zapp,
Brass Construction,
Max Romeo,
Wings,
Black Moon,
Joe Smooth,
Leonard Cohen,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bob Dylan,
The Count Five,
Slave,
Icehouse,
Soul Sonic Force,
Infiniti,
Chris Corsano,
The Remains,
The Searchers,
World's Most,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.