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 Cuba and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 10cc to the grime 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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas 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?
Danielle Patucci,
The Durutti Column,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alphaville,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Divine Comedy,
Wally Richardson,
The Young Rascals,
Babytalk,
Warren Ellis,
Quadrant,
Lalo Schifrin,
Skriet,
Au Pairs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Germs,
Fear,
AZ,
David Bowie,
Jeff Lynne,
Cluster,
Quando Quango,
Ronan,
Nils Olav,
Al Stewart,
Soft Cell,
The J.B.'s,
Shoche,
Minutemen,
Toni Rubio,
Peter & Gordon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Reuben Wilson,
Newcleus,
Patti Smith,
Kerri Chandler,
Chris & Cosey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
LL Cool J,
PIL,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Litter,
Eric Copeland,
Tomorrow,
Black Flag,
The Kinks,
Josef K,
Nirvana,
The Index,
Stetsasonic,
June Days,
DJ Style,
The Velvet Underground,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Neil Young,
Heaven 17,
Grauzone,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.