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 Gambia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Woodstock.
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 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 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 The Monochrome Set to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Derrick Morgan,
Eric Dolphy,
Boz Scaggs,
Cheater Slicks,
Bush Tetras,
Howard Jones,
Index,
Radiohead,
Spandau Ballet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
MC5,
John Coltrane,
Agitation Free,
Camouflage,
The Zeros,
The Young Rascals,
The Dead C,
Anakelly,
Morten Harket,
the Slits,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Basic Channel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rod Modell,
Arthur Verocai,
Brand Nubian,
Ultravox,
Jeff Mills,
Derrick May,
Bobby Sherman,
Pole,
Joy Division,
Royal Trux,
Faraquet,
Groovy Waters,
Dark Day,
Jeff Lynne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eric B and Rakim,
Al Stewart,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Aloha Tigers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Motorama,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lungfish,
the Sonics,
Jerry's Kids,
Janne Schatter,
Barrington Levy,
Blake Baxter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Chris Corsano,
Darondo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Roger Hodgson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Godley & Creme,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.