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 Saudi Arabia and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 sitar 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 Danielle Patucci to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
The Index,
kango's stein massive,
The Human League,
Ossler,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Radiohead,
LL Cool J,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Morten Harket,
the Soft Cell,
Skriet,
Mission of Burma,
Anthony Braxton,
Crime,
Von Mondo,
Fela Kuti,
Eric Copeland,
Junior Murvin,
Peter & Gordon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Toasters,
Skaos,
Minor Threat,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
ABC,
Echospace,
The Detroit Cobras,
Skarface,
The Grass Roots,
D'Angelo,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lyres,
Gang Starr,
Slave,
Lalo Schifrin,
James White and The Blacks,
Laurel Aitken,
Arcadia,
The American Breed,
The Walker Brothers,
Moss Icon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Circle Jerks,
Sam Rivers,
Deadbeat,
Oneida,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Slits,
The Monochrome Set,
Bad Manners,
Angry Samoans,
Yusef Lateef,
Brass Construction,
The Fortunes,
FM Einheit,
The Dirtbombs,
Donny Hathaway,
Symarip,
The Zeros,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.