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 Niger and from London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Jerry's Kids to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang of Four record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
PIL,
Basic Channel,
Television,
Liliput,
The Cramps,
Tim Buckley,
Subhumans,
The Real Kids,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Piero Umiliani,
The Walker Brothers,
Q and Not U,
The Grass Roots,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sonics,
The Music Machine,
Nas,
Alison Limerick,
Jacob Miller,
Absolute Body Control,
Au Pairs,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crime,
Reuben Wilson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Cluster,
Alice Coltrane,
Kas Product,
Roy Ayers,
The Raincoats,
Section 25,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hoover,
the Association,
Metal Thangz,
UT,
Bobby Byrd,
Cheater Slicks,
Barrington Levy,
Peter & Gordon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tropical Tobacco,
Minor Threat,
Skarface,
Masters at Work,
The Doobie Brothers,
Josef K,
The Golliwogs,
Fatback Band,
Wire,
The Cure,
Con Funk Shun,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Radiohead,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.