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 Tonga and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Althea and Donna to the funk 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sun Ra,
Patti Smith,
Sandy B,
Throbbing Gristle,
Youth Brigade,
Derrick Morgan,
Infiniti,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cameo,
Monolake,
Goldenarms,
Talk Talk,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gun Club,
Ossler,
DJ Style,
Wire,
Tres Demented,
Delon & Dalcan,
Half Japanese,
Drive Like Jehu,
OOIOO,
Thompson Twins,
Mr. Review,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tomorrow,
Roy Ayers,
Con Funk Shun,
Angry Samoans,
The Pretty Things,
Neu!,
Audionom,
The Blackbyrds,
Loose Ends,
The Gories,
Sugar Minott,
The Dirtbombs,
Gabor Szabo,
Funky Four + One,
John Cale,
Buzzcocks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Mojo Men,
Boogie Down Productions,
Don Cherry,
Index,
The Vogues,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
JFA,
Toni Rubio,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fluxion,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Radiopuhelimet,
Grey Daturas,
Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen.
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.