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 Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Half Japanese to the crunk 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Agitation Free,
Malaria!,
Michelle Simonal,
Pierre Henry,
Stockholm Monsters,
Soul Sonic Force,
Robert Görl,
Sixth Finger,
Todd Rundgren,
Hashim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Blackbyrds,
Slave,
The Sisters of Mercy,
PIL,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Faraquet,
The Smoke,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
kango's stein massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Buckinghams,
Essential Logic,
The Walker Brothers,
Charles Mingus,
Flipper,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Depeche Mode,
Ralphi Rosario,
Half Japanese,
Buzzcocks,
New Order,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Howard Jones,
The Barracudas,
Jesper Dahlback,
Liliput,
Ice-T,
Connie Case,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Cure,
Rotary Connection,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Roxy Music,
Soft Cell,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Andrew Hill,
Whodini,
Joey Negro,
Yellowson,
Gang Green,
Minny Pops,
The Leaves,
Stetsasonic,
Animal Collective,
Nik Kershaw,
Pere Ubu,
Country Teasers,
UT,
China Crisis,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.