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 Iran and from Madrid.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Copenhagen.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 PIL to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Angels of Light,
The Cramps,
Tres Demented,
Jeff Mills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nick Fraelich,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Skatalites,
Gabor Szabo,
The Electric Prunes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marshall Jefferson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tubeway Army,
The Zeros,
Bauhaus,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joyce Sims,
The Buckinghams,
Juan Atkins,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Blossom Toes,
Harmonia,
Wire,
Lindisfarne,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Golliwogs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Basic Channel,
Buzzcocks,
Boogie Down Productions,
10cc,
Robert Wyatt,
Rosa Yemen,
John Cale,
Rapeman,
E-Dancer,
Wings,
Don Cherry,
Lucky Dragons,
This Heat,
Gong,
Babytalk,
The Fuzztones,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Soft Cell,
Fatback Band,
Tomorrow,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Delon & Dalcan,
Smog,
Underground Resistance,
Ornette Coleman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Royal Trux,
Kenny Larkin,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.