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 Nigeria and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Mantronix 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Laurel Aitken,
Eli Mardock,
MC5,
Pere Ubu,
David Axelrod,
Jandek,
The Music Machine,
John Holt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Susan Cadogan,
The J.B.'s,
Jeff Lynne,
Hardrive,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Wyatt,
Nick Fraelich,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fad Gadget,
Soft Cell,
The American Breed,
Joensuu 1685,
The Velvet Underground,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Albert Ayler,
Stetsasonic,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Excepter,
Alice Coltrane,
Lightning Bolt,
Accadde A,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Panda Bear,
New York Dolls,
Donny Hathaway,
Matthew Bourne,
Freddie Wadling,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Kinks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Wake,
T.S.O.L.,
The Durutti Column,
Adolescents,
Todd Rundgren,
Curtis Mayfield,
Flipper,
Hot Snakes,
Camberwell Now,
Massinfluence,
Tom Boy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mars,
Moss Icon,
Von Mondo,
T. Rex,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Idris Muhammad,
Underground Resistance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lyres,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.