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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Lagos.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Sällskapet to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Sight & Sound,
Donny Hathaway,
CMW,
Todd Rundgren,
The Pop Group,
KRS-One,
UT,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rites of Spring,
Bootsy Collins,
The Tremeloes,
Bizarre Inc.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ludus,
Lucky Dragons,
K-Klass,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Quando Quango,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sam Rivers,
Toni Rubio,
Soft Machine,
Bobby Byrd,
The Moleskins,
Dave Gahan,
Barry Ungar,
Simply Red,
New York Dolls,
Moby Grape,
Can,
Juan Atkins,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Move,
Technova,
Mark Hollis,
Guru Guru,
Siglo XX,
Lungfish,
DJ Style,
Stereo Dub,
Ten City,
Fear,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Skriet,
Clear Light,
T.S.O.L.,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Don Cherry,
E-Dancer,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sandy B,
Amon Düül II,
Lou Christie,
Chrome,
Letta Mbulu,
The Real Kids,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.