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 Kingdom and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Wolf Eyes to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Kevin Saunderson,
DNA,
Skarface,
Sister Nancy,
MDC,
Negative Approach,
Bill Wells,
The Music Machine,
The Angels of Light,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Matthew Bourne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Erykah Badu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Standells,
Scion,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
One Last Wish,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Hardrive,
Maurizio,
Archie Shepp,
Robert Hood,
Tubeway Army,
Lower 48,
Eric Dolphy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Motorama,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Move,
Roxette,
The Gun Club,
Terry Callier,
Public Enemy,
The Birthday Party,
The Flesh Eaters,
Susan Cadogan,
Junior Murvin,
Pere Ubu,
Yellowson,
Amazonics,
The Leaves,
Main Source,
The Electric Prunes,
Brick,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kaleidoscope,
Silicon Teens,
Magma,
The Dave Clark Five,
ABBA,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gang Starr,
T.S.O.L.,
Sight & Sound,
AZ,
EPMD,
The Saints,
Radio Birdman,
Deadbeat,
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.