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 India and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bronski Beat to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
The Human League,
Rufus Thomas,
Half Japanese,
the Fania All-Stars,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Black Dice,
The Toasters,
The Smoke,
The Fortunes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Velvet Underground,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Accadde A,
Gang Starr,
Drive Like Jehu,
Swans,
A Certain Ratio,
Ituana,
Marshall Jefferson,
Los Fastidios,
The Moody Blues,
Marvin Gaye,
Loose Ends,
Mantronix,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crispy Ambulance,
John Lydon,
The Young Rascals,
Brick,
Scion,
DJ Style,
Liliput,
Eve St. Jones,
Sight & Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
Make Up,
Index,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flipper,
The New Christs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Anakelly,
The Cowsills,
Girls At Our Best!,
Crash Course in Science,
Kenny Larkin,
Ultravox,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Aaron Thompson,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kaleidoscope,
Sixth Finger,
Scrapy,
The Mummies,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Animal Collective,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.