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 Ecuador and from Columbus.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 clarinet 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 The Alarm Clocks 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
Freddie Wadling,
Roxette,
Schoolly D,
Scott Walker,
The J.B.'s,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Inner City,
Silicon Teens,
Jandek,
Lalann,
Erasure,
Harpers Bizarre,
Anthony Braxton,
Khruangbin,
The Gap Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Ronnie Foster,
Ultravox,
Cluster,
Pere Ubu,
Kurtis Blow,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Fall,
The Moody Blues,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Danielle Patucci,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scion,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Coltrane,
Don Cherry,
The Black Dice,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bad Manners,
Hashim,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blackbyrds,
Qualms,
Rhythm & Sound,
KRS-One,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Music Machine,
Alice Coltrane,
Robert Wyatt,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kayak,
The Names,
Glambeats Corp.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Monochrome Set,
Laurel Aitken,
The Durutti Column,
Babytalk,
Intrusion,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arab on Radar,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.