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 Moldova and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Slick Rick to the disco 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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Derrick May,
Danielle Patucci,
New Order,
Colin Newman,
Porter Ricks,
Magma,
Pussy Galore,
Talk Talk,
Y Pants,
Underground Resistance,
Technova,
Kas Product,
Joensuu 1685,
Godley & Creme,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Idris Muhammad,
Janne Schatter,
Wire,
The J.B.'s,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Red Krayola,
Sex Pistols,
The Raincoats,
Soft Cell,
Quadrant,
Bauhaus,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Residents,
Alison Limerick,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
World's Most,
Public Enemy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
T. Rex,
Bill Near,
Ultravox,
Nik Kershaw,
Tears for Fears,
The Skatalites,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Toasters,
D'Angelo,
CMW,
Boogie Down Productions,
La Düsseldorf,
Alice Coltrane,
Morten Harket,
Swans,
Sonic Youth,
Agent Orange,
B.T. Express,
Graham Central Station,
Ornette Coleman,
Excepter,
Eric Dolphy,
Toni Rubio,
Bootsy Collins,
the Association,
Scientists,
Unrelated Segments,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.