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 Oman 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Tubeway Army to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 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?
Black Bananas,
Los Fastidios,
Television,
Lindisfarne,
Moebius,
The Litter,
Deepchord,
Tim Buckley,
Basic Channel,
John Foxx,
Iggy Pop,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Zeros,
Q and Not U,
Thee Headcoats,
New Age Steppers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jawbox,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Silicon Teens,
Scion,
DJ Style,
T. Rex,
Colin Newman,
the Germs,
Bobby Sherman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Deadbeat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fad Gadget,
The Fugs,
Crispy Ambulance,
Glenn Branca,
The Happenings,
Blake Baxter,
The Leaves,
Lou Christie,
Carl Craig,
Quadrant,
Nas,
Swans,
Prince Buster,
Dave Gahan,
ABC,
The Busters,
Traffic Nightmare,
Maurizio,
Bluetip,
Duran Duran,
X-101,
OOIOO,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Average White Band,
Can,
James White and The Blacks,
Davy DMX,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Blancmange,
Section 25,
Stiv Bators,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.