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 Nepal and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Godley & Creme to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Tomorrow,
Throbbing Gristle,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Motions,
June Days,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nils Olav,
Don Cherry,
R.M.O.,
The Human League,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Christie,
Livin' Joy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Blues Magoos,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Doobie Brothers,
K-Klass,
Derrick Morgan,
Bob Dylan,
June of 44,
Subhumans,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Carl Craig,
Todd Rundgren,
Jawbox,
The Residents,
Scan 7,
The Invisible,
Y Pants,
Eurythmics,
The Mojo Men,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Public Image Ltd.,
Talk Talk,
Half Japanese,
Fatback Band,
Angry Samoans,
John Coltrane,
Pere Ubu,
Ronan,
Fugazi,
The Velvet Underground,
The Skatalites,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Womack,
Chris Corsano,
Sexual Harrassment,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mad Mike,
Freddie Wadling,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare,
H. Thieme,
Mo-Dettes,
OOIOO,
Roger Hodgson,
Amon Düül II,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Black Dice,
Sun City Girls,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.