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 Syria and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Crispian St. Peters,
Dave Gahan,
Josef K,
Angry Samoans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Henry Cow,
JFA,
Scion,
Tears for Fears,
Ronnie Foster,
China Crisis,
the Slits,
Lee Hazlewood,
Man Eating Sloth,
Althea and Donna,
Cymande,
Gong,
Inner City,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Anthony Braxton,
DJ Sneak,
Urselle,
Leonard Cohen,
PIL,
Quadrant,
Rakim,
The Offenders,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Absolute Body Control,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joy Division,
Bauhaus,
Connie Case,
Drexciya,
Circle Jerks,
Judy Mowatt,
Ralphi Rosario,
Faust,
Johnny Clarke,
Accadde A,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Easy Going,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Essential Logic,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Zapp,
cv313,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Last Poets,
The Residents,
Au Pairs,
Aaron Thompson,
Lindisfarne,
Section 25,
Aural Exciters,
The Doors,
Youth Brigade,
Reagan Youth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.