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 Austria and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Glasgow.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Sun City Girls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Skaos,
The Zeros,
Eric Dolphy,
Deakin,
Excepter,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Mars,
The Stooges,
Sixth Finger,
Deadbeat,
Mantronix,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Albert Ayler,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Moss Icon,
Popol Vuh,
Erykah Badu,
L. Decosne,
Half Japanese,
Rhythm & Sound,
Das Ding,
Stiv Bators,
Bauhaus,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Newcleus,
Loose Ends,
Hot Snakes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Black Bananas,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bobby Sherman,
Toni Rubio,
Porter Ricks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
John Foxx,
Radiohead,
The Real Kids,
The Slackers,
Ronnie Foster,
Jawbox,
Eric Copeland,
James White and The Blacks,
Lakeside,
The New Christs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pharoah Sanders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rufus Thomas,
Clear Light,
Skriet,
Youth Brigade,
Lebanon Hanover,
Minny Pops,
Mark Hollis,
Barry Ungar,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Blues Magoos,
The Beau Brummels,
Animal Collective,
Angry Samoans,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.