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 Djibouti and from Copenhagen.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Anakelly to the disco 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
The Young Rascals,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Electric Prunes,
The Moleskins,
Pantaleimon,
PIL,
Albert Ayler,
Chris & Cosey,
World's Most,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Deadbeat,
Camouflage,
Bobby Sherman,
Aural Exciters,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sun Ra,
The Move,
Los Fastidios,
The Offenders,
a-ha,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Niagra,
the Human League,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sugar Minott,
Moebius,
Slick Rick,
Bang On A Can,
Pagans,
Heaven 17,
Mr. Review,
Unwound,
Mars,
The Pop Group,
Lou Christie,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Seeds,
The Last Poets,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Residents,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nik Kershaw,
The Modern Lovers,
Public Enemy,
The New Christs,
The Slits,
The Fall,
Althea and Donna,
Lower 48,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cameo,
June Days,
Bill Near,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Arab on Radar,
Dead Boys,
Brick,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Motions,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.