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 Macedonia and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the rock 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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Spandau Ballet,
Desert Stars,
Japan,
Cymande,
The Remains,
Ken Boothe,
Bob Dylan,
Kevin Saunderson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Grass Roots,
Sun Ra,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
World's Most,
China Crisis,
Johnny Clarke,
Todd Terry,
The Beau Brummels,
Nick Fraelich,
Derrick Morgan,
Davy DMX,
the Human League,
Eurythmics,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Fatback Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Make Up,
Grey Daturas,
PIL,
Ossler,
Pole,
Ituana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Busters,
Reuben Wilson,
Amon Düül II,
Reagan Youth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Crispian St. Peters,
UT,
John Cale,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lower 48,
Slick Rick,
Delta 5,
L. Decosne,
Adolescents,
The Zeros,
Warsaw,
Marcia Griffiths,
Delon & Dalcan,
Funkadelic,
Chris Corsano,
Negative Approach,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Slits,
The Velvet Underground,
Johnny Osbourne,
Livin' Joy,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.