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 Yemen and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin 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 Drive Like Jehu to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Flash Fearless,
Curtis Mayfield,
Reagan Youth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The American Breed,
Nico,
David Bowie,
Moebius,
China Crisis,
The Smoke,
Gastr Del Sol,
Todd Terry,
Whodini,
The Zeros,
Swell Maps,
Ponytail,
Kas Product,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Deepchord,
Lou Christie,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lakeside,
X-Ray Spex,
Little Man,
Q65,
Delon & Dalcan,
Altered Images,
Unwound,
The Names,
Average White Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Five Americans,
Section 25,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Happenings,
a-ha,
Symarip,
Lower 48,
Morten Harket,
Tomorrow,
Underground Resistance,
Kurtis Blow,
Graham Central Station,
Royal Trux,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Warren Ellis,
Joe Finger,
The Dead C,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Terrestrial Tones,
Wire,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sight & Sound,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Mojo Men,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Mummies,
kango's stein massive,
the Normal,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.