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 Burundi and from Hong Kong.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Flash Fearless to the rap 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 Porter Ricks. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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 Seeds,
Nirvana,
Ten City,
DNA,
The Real Kids,
Television,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Blackbyrds,
the Swans,
Avey Tare,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Tubeway Army,
The Sound,
10cc,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Mad Mike,
Ken Boothe,
AZ,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tom Boy,
U.S. Maple,
Carl Craig,
Negative Approach,
Ultravox,
Motorama,
Robert Hood,
Scion,
Deepchord,
KRS-One,
The Durutti Column,
Cybotron,
The Gap Band,
Intrusion,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Danielle Patucci,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
June Days,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Spoonie Gee,
Sonic Youth,
Mars,
Tres Demented,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Throbbing Gristle,
Slave,
Oblivians,
Peter & Gordon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Radiopuhelimet,
F. McDonald,
Byron Stingily,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ronan,
Au Pairs,
Scratch Acid,
John Cale,
Camouflage,
John Lydon,
Pylon,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.