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 Taiwan and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Von Mondo to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Thee Headcoats,
OOIOO,
Quando Quango,
Hot Snakes,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Vogues,
Wire,
The Seeds,
New York Dolls,
The Flesh Eaters,
Idris Muhammad,
Schoolly D,
Marvin Gaye,
10cc,
Sparks,
MC5,
Delon & Dalcan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Wolf Eyes,
Bush Tetras,
Man Parrish,
The Gladiators,
Mary Jane Girls,
Theoretical Girls,
Funky Four + One,
Scott Walker,
Nico,
Ten City,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
James White and The Blacks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Masters at Work,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Oblivians,
Carl Craig,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Erykah Badu,
Banda Bassotti,
Pole,
The Buckinghams,
Hoover,
The American Breed,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ice-T,
The Mojo Men,
The New Christs,
Monks,
Cymande,
The Shadows of Knight,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ituana,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Divine Comedy,
Letta Mbulu,
Slave,
Rosa Yemen,
Guru Guru,
DNA,
Ultravox,
the Normal,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.