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 Samoa and from London.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Unwound to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
La Düsseldorf,
June Days,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Searchers,
The Toasters,
The Fugs,
Babytalk,
The Grass Roots,
The Gap Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sonny Sharrock,
Yazoo,
The Residents,
Peter & Gordon,
Soulsonic Force,
The Flesh Eaters,
Tres Demented,
Guru Guru,
Basic Channel,
Maurizio,
Ponytail,
Godley & Creme,
Silicon Teens,
Blake Baxter,
Yaz,
The Associates,
The Moleskins,
Dave Gahan,
PIL,
Aaron Thompson,
The American Breed,
Kerri Chandler,
X-101,
R.M.O.,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Niagra,
Amazonics,
Leonard Cohen,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gong,
The Doors,
Deepchord,
X-102,
Neil Young,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Count Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
JFA,
Morten Harket,
The Blackbyrds,
Easy Going,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cecil Taylor,
Franke,
Porter Ricks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Music Machine,
Main Source,
Whodini,
Shoche,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.