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 Albania and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Cluster 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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Prince Buster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Pantytec,
Sugar Minott,
Monks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Silicon Teens,
the Normal,
Sun City Girls,
Aloha Tigers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marcia Griffiths,
DNA,
Todd Rundgren,
Groovy Waters,
Stereo Dub,
JFA,
Quadrant,
Colin Newman,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bauhaus,
X-102,
Alton Ellis,
Yaz,
The Busters,
Japan,
Brand Nubian,
Lower 48,
Dead Boys,
Bill Near,
Glambeats Corp.,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nils Olav,
Interpol,
Subhumans,
The Wake,
Glenn Branca,
Tubeway Army,
Gerry Rafferty,
Spoonie Gee,
Sixth Finger,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Soft Machine,
Danielle Patucci,
Moebius,
Aswad,
Half Japanese,
Laurel Aitken,
Alphaville,
The Litter,
Drive Like Jehu,
Hashim,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Monochrome Set,
Amon Düül,
Marc Almond,
Cybotron,
The Detroit Cobras,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Iggy Pop,
Livin' Joy,
E-Dancer,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.