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 Kiribati 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 In Retrospect 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Reagan Youth,
Liliput,
New Order,
Moebius,
Shoche,
The Pop Group,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cecil Taylor,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joey Negro,
Mark Hollis,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Blackbyrds,
Minny Pops,
Man Parrish,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bobby Sherman,
Pole,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Human League,
The Evens,
Absolute Body Control,
Todd Terry,
Freddie Wadling,
Eden Ahbez,
The Cramps,
Dual Sessions,
Gerry Rafferty,
Alton Ellis,
Angry Samoans,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ornette Coleman,
Tubeway Army,
Toni Rubio,
a-ha,
Chrome,
Cluster,
Ohio Players,
The Smiths,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Malaria!,
The Dead C,
Swans,
Spoonie Gee,
Quando Quango,
Slave,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aaron Thompson,
Soulsonic Force,
Audionom,
The Golliwogs,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed,
KRS-One,
Thompson Twins,
The United States of America,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Remains,
Boredoms,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.