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 Germany and from Sao Paulo.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 X-102 to the techno 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Absolute Body Control,
The Victims,
Pere Ubu,
Joyce Sims,
Grauzone,
Tom Boy,
Parry Music,
Bobby Womack,
Sun City Girls,
Henry Cow,
the Soft Cell,
Silicon Teens,
Marshall Jefferson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Agent Orange,
Pylon,
Franke,
Blossom Toes,
Boredoms,
Patti Smith,
Soft Cell,
Black Sheep,
Royal Trux,
The Selecter,
Alton Ellis,
Outsiders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Animal Collective,
Liliput,
Kerri Chandler,
Gong,
Joy Division,
Young Marble Giants,
Mars,
Cal Tjader,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Pretty Things,
The Gun Club,
Janne Schatter,
Cymande,
T.S.O.L.,
Black Flag,
Malaria!,
The Slits,
the Association,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Trumans Water,
Nirvana,
Ice-T,
Saccharine Trust,
Youth Brigade,
Eurythmics,
Radiopuhelimet,
Oblivians,
Blancmange,
Ohio Players,
the Swans,
the Normal,
Wings,
Circle Jerks,
Toni Rubio,
Cheater Slicks,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.