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 El Salvador 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 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 Gastr Del Sol to the jazz 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Severed Heads,
Can,
Toni Rubio,
Fela Kuti,
Negative Approach,
Zapp,
Dead Boys,
The Dead C,
Pere Ubu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter & Gordon,
The Real Kids,
John Foxx,
Malaria!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Banda Bassotti,
Stereo Dub,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Human League,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Big Daddy Kane,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
James White and The Blacks,
Rotary Connection,
John Cale,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Subhumans,
Echospace,
The Cramps,
Animal Collective,
Easy Going,
Piero Umiliani,
Bobby Byrd,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Leonard Cohen,
Deepchord,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Agent Orange,
Arcadia,
Kool Moe Dee,
John Holt,
Skaos,
Lou Christie,
Max Romeo,
Rakim,
Symarip,
Lungfish,
Frankie Knuckles,
Freddie Wadling,
The Neon Judgement,
Bill Wells,
Altered Images,
H. Thieme,
The Star Department,
Depeche Mode,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Fire Engines,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.