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 Lithuania and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Michael McDonald 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 Basic Channel to the dance 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
The Grass Roots,
Qualms,
The Neon Judgement,
Lower 48,
Todd Rundgren,
D'Angelo,
Terry Callier,
The Mummies,
New York Dolls,
Essential Logic,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Mission of Burma,
Pere Ubu,
Zero Boys,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pierre Henry,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Make Up,
The Fugs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Michelle Simonal,
Matthew Halsall,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Hoover,
Deepchord,
Silicon Teens,
Bauhaus,
One Last Wish,
Ice-T,
Drive Like Jehu,
Popol Vuh,
Little Man,
The Saints,
Jacques Brel,
Eric Dolphy,
Quando Quango,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Busters,
The Vogues,
Wolf Eyes,
Rotary Connection,
The Blackbyrds,
Bluetip,
Brick,
Alison Limerick,
Nirvana,
Aaron Thompson,
Suicide,
Nico,
Quadrant,
Clear Light,
kango's stein massive,
Deakin,
Spandau Ballet,
Nation of Ulysses,
Peter and Kerry,
Johnny Osbourne,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Echospace,
The Fire Engines,
Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman.
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.