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 Canada and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Barclay James Harvest to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Thompson Twins,
The Trojans,
The Fugs,
Joe Smooth,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dave Gahan,
FM Einheit,
The Five Americans,
Susan Cadogan,
Goldenarms,
Ten City,
Derrick Morgan,
Moss Icon,
Radiohead,
Nico,
Urselle,
Darondo,
CMW,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Visage,
Amon Düül II,
Arthur Verocai,
Davy DMX,
La Düsseldorf,
Wolf Eyes,
Jawbox,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donald Byrd,
Procol Harum,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marine Girls,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mission of Burma,
Aloha Tigers,
Matthew Bourne,
Panda Bear,
Funky Four + One,
Das Ding,
Quando Quango,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ice-T,
Byron Stingily,
James White and The Blacks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Neon Judgement,
The Real Kids,
Kerrie Biddell,
Brothers Johnson,
Nas,
Robert Hood,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marshall Jefferson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Delta 5,
Gang Green,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.