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 Mauritius and from Edmonton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Joy Division to the jazz 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Todd Rundgren,
Livin' Joy,
Morten Harket,
Pussy Galore,
Agent Orange,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Interpol,
UT,
Al Stewart,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Michelle Simonal,
Colin Newman,
cv313,
the Bar-Kays,
Main Source,
Motorama,
Dorothy Ashby,
David Axelrod,
Neil Young,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
E-Dancer,
Maurizio,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Smiths,
Public Enemy,
Royal Trux,
China Crisis,
Derrick May,
The Associates,
Lindisfarne,
Panda Bear,
Charles Mingus,
the Sonics,
Con Funk Shun,
Icehouse,
Donald Byrd,
Eden Ahbez,
Ronan,
Rakim,
Carl Craig,
Roxy Music,
Visage,
Warsaw,
Wings,
David McCallum,
The Trojans,
Pantaleimon,
PIL,
Mad Mike,
Oneida,
Marmalade,
Yazoo,
Black Moon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Glambeats Corp.,
Schoolly D,
Matthew Bourne,
Von Mondo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Erasure,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.