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 Spain and from Seoul.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Selecter to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Aural Exciters,
Warren Ellis,
Wasted Youth,
Kevin Saunderson,
Crime,
a-ha,
Connie Case,
Youth Brigade,
The Cowsills,
Excepter,
Dead Boys,
Sonic Youth,
The Electric Prunes,
Gregory Isaacs,
In Retrospect,
Supertramp,
New Order,
Model 500,
Danielle Patucci,
Kas Product,
Laurel Aitken,
Loose Ends,
Letta Mbulu,
Guru Guru,
Hashim,
cv313,
Eurythmics,
Harpers Bizarre,
Terrestrial Tones,
Spandau Ballet,
Ten City,
The Buckinghams,
Joey Negro,
Altered Images,
Scrapy,
Aloha Tigers,
Bill Wells,
Pussy Galore,
Massinfluence,
Eve St. Jones,
The Searchers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
LL Cool J,
The Dave Clark Five,
Angry Samoans,
Trumans Water,
Susan Cadogan,
Quadrant,
Little Man,
Don Cherry,
Gichy Dan,
Fela Kuti,
Rites of Spring,
Gong,
Brand Nubian,
Tubeway Army,
New Age Steppers,
Alison Limerick,
Dennis Brown,
the Association,
The Moleskins,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.