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 Austria and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 clarinet 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 Joensuu 1685 to the disco 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Idris Muhammad,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eddi Front,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Make Up,
Ralphi Rosario,
Minnie Riperton,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Birthday Party,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Angels of Light,
Brass Construction,
James White and The Blacks,
The Velvet Underground,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pantytec,
Radiohead,
Country Teasers,
Derrick Morgan,
Marine Girls,
Circle Jerks,
Darondo,
Swans,
Funky Four + One,
Althea and Donna,
Davy DMX,
Juan Atkins,
UT,
Curtis Mayfield,
Loose Ends,
Sam Rivers,
Bluetip,
The Buckinghams,
The Mojo Men,
Harmonia,
Minor Threat,
Whodini,
Eli Mardock,
Pere Ubu,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Doors,
Livin' Joy,
Con Funk Shun,
Motorama,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Liliput,
Brick,
Sandy B,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
ABBA,
Rosa Yemen,
Kas Product,
Henry Cow,
Supertramp,
Siglo XX,
Panda Bear,
Boredoms,
David McCallum,
Wolf Eyes,
Dawn Penn,
The Smoke,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.