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 United States and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare 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 Quadrant to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wally Richardson,
Nirvana,
Masters at Work,
Cecil Taylor,
Bobby Womack,
Faraquet,
Alphaville,
Joy Division,
Maleditus Sound,
Lalann,
Dead Boys,
Q65,
The Fugs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Prince Buster,
Fela Kuti,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
Soulsonic Force,
Public Enemy,
Guru Guru,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Doobie Brothers,
R.M.O.,
Mission of Burma,
Circle Jerks,
Kaleidoscope,
Bill Near,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Pretty Things,
Lou Reed,
Tommy Roe,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Buckinghams,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Desert Stars,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Agent Orange,
The Motions,
New Age Steppers,
Nas,
the Human League,
Underground Resistance,
Ossler,
The Leaves,
Flamin' Groovies,
Liliput,
La Düsseldorf,
Steve Hackett,
The Tremeloes,
the Swans,
Youth Brigade,
Organ,
Spandau Ballet,
Chris & Cosey,
Heaven 17,
Vladislav Delay,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.