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 Lesotho and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tres Demented to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
The Wake,
Peter & Gordon,
Marc Almond,
The Golliwogs,
T. Rex,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Can,
Letta Mbulu,
Gang Starr,
Barry Ungar,
Eddi Front,
Ornette Coleman,
Johnny Clarke,
Kas Product,
Cal Tjader,
Pulsallama,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Aural Exciters,
Ponytail,
New York Dolls,
Todd Rundgren,
Godley & Creme,
The Fugs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T.S.O.L.,
Funkadelic,
Absolute Body Control,
Sarah Menescal,
Fela Kuti,
Gregory Isaacs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Basic Channel,
Minnie Riperton,
H. Thieme,
Zero Boys,
Ohio Players,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Kinks,
A Certain Ratio,
Alison Limerick,
Cybotron,
The Star Department,
Tears for Fears,
Sight & Sound,
OOIOO,
Jeru the Damaja,
Leonard Cohen,
Camberwell Now,
Lakeside,
Roxette,
Severed Heads,
Marine Girls,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Loose Ends,
DJ Sneak,
The Smiths,
Aloha Tigers,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.