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 Kuwait and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Surgeon to the grunge 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
The Modern Lovers,
Absolute Body Control,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moby Grape,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Joyce Sims,
Davy DMX,
Ultravox,
Cal Tjader,
Derrick Morgan,
Theoretical Girls,
Lower 48,
Althea and Donna,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Flash Fearless,
The Five Americans,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Andrew Hill,
Chrome,
Judy Mowatt,
Mark Hollis,
F. McDonald,
Tears for Fears,
Toni Rubio,
Nils Olav,
Fluxion,
Donald Byrd,
Pagans,
Lou Reed,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jerry's Kids,
The Star Department,
Depeche Mode,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Slits,
Mantronix,
Amon Düül II,
Lebanon Hanover,
Drexciya,
Marvin Gaye,
Brass Construction,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Roxy Music,
Severed Heads,
Leonard Cohen,
Blake Baxter,
Fear,
Model 500,
Monks,
Electric Prunes,
Kenny Larkin,
Supertramp,
Porter Ricks,
ABBA,
Ituana,
World's Most,
The Doobie Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
The Divine Comedy,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.