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 Chad and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Marshall Jefferson to the funk 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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 Mojo Men,
Joensuu 1685,
Josef K,
Sex Pistols,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Byron Stingily,
Radiopuhelimet,
James White and The Blacks,
The Slackers,
KRS-One,
The Stooges,
Maurizio,
Intrusion,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drexciya,
Duran Duran,
Sister Nancy,
Yazoo,
Rapeman,
Warren Ellis,
Lalann,
The Real Kids,
Angry Samoans,
Ossler,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tom Boy,
Icehouse,
Ponytail,
Tres Demented,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
World's Most,
Index,
Sun City Girls,
Ronan,
DNA,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Main Source,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Tubeway Army,
Black Flag,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scott Walker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Patti Smith,
Livin' Joy,
Jeff Lynne,
Charles Mingus,
Bobby Byrd,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Modern Lovers,
Bill Wells,
Marc Almond,
Moby Grape,
Terry Callier,
Suburban Knight,
Pulsallama,
Pussy Galore,
Negative Approach,
Massinfluence,
Camberwell Now,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.