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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba 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 Dorothy Ashby to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
The Alarm Clocks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jandek,
Agitation Free,
Ten City,
Kaleidoscope,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Sherman,
Michelle Simonal,
Max Romeo,
Basic Channel,
Gichy Dan,
Colin Newman,
Marc Almond,
In Retrospect,
Roxy Music,
The Associates,
The Mojo Men,
Ponytail,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eddi Front,
The Star Department,
Saccharine Trust,
Kas Product,
the Soft Cell,
Scion,
Todd Rundgren,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fortunes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Avey Tare,
Cybotron,
Mars,
Young Marble Giants,
Skriet,
Patti Smith,
New Order,
Hasil Adkins,
Toni Rubio,
The Music Machine,
Harpers Bizarre,
Quadrant,
Fluxion,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Angels of Light,
The Golliwogs,
Dawn Penn,
The Sonics,
Delta 5,
The Blackbyrds,
Rapeman,
Terry Callier,
the Normal,
Deakin,
Sun City Girls,
Pierre Henry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ohio Players,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.