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 Nepal and from Calgary.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 DJ Sneak to the rock 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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Moleskins,
Lungfish,
Janne Schatter,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Massinfluence,
Bush Tetras,
The Leaves,
Chris & Cosey,
Scion,
Yazoo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sex Pistols,
New Age Steppers,
Neil Young,
This Heat,
the Normal,
Pylon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
New Order,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Banda Bassotti,
Fluxion,
Rakim,
Lyres,
The Beau Brummels,
Yaz,
EPMD,
Talk Talk,
The Saints,
Prince Buster,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Star Department,
The Divine Comedy,
Rotary Connection,
Nirvana,
June of 44,
Newcleus,
The Gladiators,
Fatback Band,
Hot Snakes,
Scrapy,
Monks,
Connie Case,
Section 25,
Jesper Dahlback,
Delon & Dalcan,
Albert Ayler,
Michelle Simonal,
The Dirtbombs,
ABC,
The Blues Magoos,
Anakelly,
The Dave Clark Five,
Faust,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rosa Yemen,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.