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 Ethiopia and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Arab on Radar to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Heaven 17,
Model 500,
Jacob Miller,
Newcleus,
Rosa Yemen,
The Electric Prunes,
Soft Machine,
Flamin' Groovies,
Camberwell Now,
Animal Collective,
Cymande,
DJ Sneak,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Young Marble Giants,
Pere Ubu,
Underground Resistance,
This Heat,
Janne Schatter,
Sixth Finger,
Excepter,
Mark Hollis,
Sister Nancy,
Shuggie Otis,
Blake Baxter,
the Soft Cell,
Warsaw,
Yazoo,
Godley & Creme,
Rotary Connection,
JFA,
Theoretical Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Real Kids,
Bobby Sherman,
Sound Behaviour,
Robert Wyatt,
Guru Guru,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Interpol,
Joe Finger,
David Axelrod,
Vladislav Delay,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jacques Brel,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ice-T,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tim Buckley,
Blancmange,
John Cale,
Kerri Chandler,
Unwound,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Last Poets,
Rites of Spring,
The Leaves,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.