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 Nigeria and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 harpsichord 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 Faust to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cowsills,
Icehouse,
Television Personalities,
Tres Demented,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Anthony Braxton,
The Busters,
AZ,
Sam Rivers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jimmy McGriff,
A Certain Ratio,
Q and Not U,
ABC,
Judy Mowatt,
Talk Talk,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eric Dolphy,
Unwound,
Tom Boy,
MC5,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Vladislav Delay,
Wings,
The Seeds,
Nas,
Jacob Miller,
Scan 7,
The Gap Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Faust,
Kaleidoscope,
Ronan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Crispian St. Peters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Stooges,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thompson Twins,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Danielle Patucci,
ABBA,
Arcadia,
Dave Gahan,
The Leaves,
Soul Sonic Force,
Scrapy,
Alice Coltrane,
B.T. Express,
Althea and Donna,
Rosa Yemen,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sister Nancy,
The Toasters,
Ornette Coleman,
Guru Guru,
Gabor Szabo,
The Gun Club,
The Names,
The Offenders,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.