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 Libya and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ituana to the grunge 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 The Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Essential Logic,
Lou Reed,
Sun Ra,
The Monks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Outsiders,
Popol Vuh,
June Days,
The Last Poets,
Spoonie Gee,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scrapy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ituana,
Ossler,
Motorama,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Neon Judgement,
Rotary Connection,
Moebius,
The Mojo Men,
Gregory Isaacs,
Reuben Wilson,
The Fire Engines,
Echospace,
The Stooges,
Crooked Eye,
Isaac Hayes,
Adolescents,
Theoretical Girls,
The Selecter,
Matthew Halsall,
Public Enemy,
Wings,
Fugazi,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Avey Tare,
Yusef Lateef,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Swans,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marc Almond,
Neil Young,
China Crisis,
Arcadia,
Loose Ends,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jeff Lynne,
The Techniques,
Deepchord,
Public Image Ltd.,
FM Einheit,
the Germs,
The New Christs,
Brass Construction,
This Heat,
Radiopuhelimet,
DNA,
the Bar-Kays,
Delta 5,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Q65,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.