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 the UAE and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the jazz 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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Funkadelic,
The Barracudas,
The Fall,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dark Day,
Flash Fearless,
Skarface,
Country Teasers,
Bad Manners,
The Offenders,
Television,
Radiohead,
The Red Krayola,
Sound Behaviour,
Brass Construction,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Simply Red,
Roxy Music,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Quantec,
The Moody Blues,
Rufus Thomas,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Erykah Badu,
Livin' Joy,
Sonic Youth,
Smog,
Blake Baxter,
Pet Shop Boys,
Q and Not U,
Loose Ends,
The Associates,
June Days,
Boz Scaggs,
Metal Thangz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Flag,
Can,
Matthew Bourne,
Maleditus Sound,
Fugazi,
Scientists,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Symarip,
Rod Modell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Buzzcocks,
Ponytail,
Crooked Eye,
David McCallum,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ludus,
Roy Ayers,
DJ Sneak,
Robert Wyatt,
Yazoo,
Tears for Fears,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.