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 Romania and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Saccharine Trust to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barclay James Harvest 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Godley & Creme,
Neu!,
Agitation Free,
Wire,
X-102,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kevin Saunderson,
These Immortal Souls,
Johnny Clarke,
Sparks,
Lalann,
Surgeon,
Moby Grape,
The Zeros,
Dual Sessions,
Sam Rivers,
Sister Nancy,
Moebius,
Deepchord,
DNA,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arab on Radar,
Make Up,
the Slits,
Black Flag,
The Human League,
Main Source,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Interpol,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Animal Collective,
Todd Rundgren,
Steve Hackett,
R.M.O.,
Wasted Youth,
Stiv Bators,
Alison Limerick,
Bluetip,
Barrington Levy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lungfish,
Aloha Tigers,
The Residents,
Joensuu 1685,
Morten Harket,
Al Stewart,
Ronan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Marc Almond,
Silicon Teens,
The Wake,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Excepter,
The Shadows of Knight,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.