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 Hungary and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin 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 Normal to the dance 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
Aaron Thompson,
Whodini,
The Victims,
Quadrant,
Eric Dolphy,
Scan 7,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DJ Style,
The Modern Lovers,
The Martian,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hardrive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Public Image Ltd.,
Donny Hathaway,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fugazi,
Stiv Bators,
Easy Going,
Idris Muhammad,
Ohio Players,
Sun Ra,
D'Angelo,
Jacob Miller,
Warren Ellis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Standells,
Nik Kershaw,
Procol Harum,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Make Up,
Mo-Dettes,
the Bar-Kays,
Crime,
Lightning Bolt,
KRS-One,
Pylon,
Matthew Bourne,
The Moody Blues,
Index,
Johnny Clarke,
Symarip,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rotary Connection,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Technova,
Monolake,
Interpol,
Gang of Four,
Bobby Womack,
Reagan Youth,
Wolf Eyes,
Black Bananas,
Neil Young,
David McCallum,
Fela Kuti,
Guru Guru,
The Zeros,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.