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 Japan and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin 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 Byron Stingily to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Laurel Aitken,
the Association,
Eurythmics,
Stockholm Monsters,
Chrome,
Oneida,
Nico,
Slick Rick,
Quantec,
The Mojo Men,
Tropical Tobacco,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Section 25,
The Five Americans,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rotary Connection,
Popol Vuh,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mars,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eli Mardock,
Chris Corsano,
Ronan,
Grey Daturas,
Tom Boy,
Barbara Tucker,
Robert Görl,
Brand Nubian,
Deakin,
Sarah Menescal,
Flipper,
John Foxx,
Surgeon,
Skaos,
Neil Young,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Livin' Joy,
Rosa Yemen,
The Red Krayola,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soft Cell,
Andrew Hill,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Barracudas,
Jesper Dahlback,
PIL,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lower 48,
Charles Mingus,
Davy DMX,
the Sonics,
Prince Buster,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Barrington Levy,
Wolf Eyes,
Banda Bassotti,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.