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 East Timor and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Bremen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Joensuu 1685 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Jacob Miller,
Tubeway Army,
Groovy Waters,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joe Smooth,
Tropical Tobacco,
Charles Mingus,
The Smoke,
Make Up,
Sun City Girls,
Peter & Gordon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brand Nubian,
Index,
The Blues Magoos,
Dave Gahan,
Gerry Rafferty,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Golliwogs,
The Invisible,
Scion,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Byron Stingily,
Anthony Braxton,
Janne Schatter,
Banda Bassotti,
R.M.O.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Radiohead,
Blossom Toes,
Model 500,
Matthew Halsall,
Mission of Burma,
Masters at Work,
Amazonics,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Raincoats,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scratch Acid,
Echospace,
Patti Smith,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ralphi Rosario,
Malaria!,
Throbbing Gristle,
Audionom,
Letta Mbulu,
Eve St. Jones,
Scan 7,
Rosa Yemen,
Warren Ellis,
Frankie Knuckles,
Liliput,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pussy Galore,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
James White and The Blacks,
The Motions,
Nick Fraelich,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.