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 Vietnam and from Johannesburg.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Deepchord to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Red Krayola record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Cheater Slicks,
D'Angelo,
the Association,
Gong,
The Dirtbombs,
In Retrospect,
Sixth Finger,
The Gun Club,
Minny Pops,
Technova,
John Lydon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Avey Tare,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sällskapet,
Mars,
Public Image Ltd.,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Accadde A,
Sight & Sound,
Minnie Riperton,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Electric Prunes,
James White and The Blacks,
Thee Headcoats,
The Fuzztones,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
New York Dolls,
Minutemen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Skarface,
The Martian,
Wolf Eyes,
Oblivians,
Quantec,
T. Rex,
Grauzone,
Letta Mbulu,
Connie Case,
Section 25,
Alphaville,
Bad Manners,
X-Ray Spex,
Japan,
T.S.O.L.,
Moby Grape,
Bush Tetras,
Deakin,
Agitation Free,
Simply Red,
E-Dancer,
Das Ding,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Sherman,
Electric Prunes,
Kenny Larkin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.