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 Philippines and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Loose Ends to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol 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?
John Holt,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bad Manners,
Zero Boys,
Terry Callier,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Wire,
June Days,
Carl Craig,
Howard Jones,
Ice-T,
Hoover,
The Birthday Party,
Toni Rubio,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Cal Tjader,
Henry Cow,
The Moody Blues,
Lindisfarne,
Grandmaster Flash,
Suburban Knight,
Lightning Bolt,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Subhumans,
Kaleidoscope,
The Remains,
The United States of America,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bush Tetras,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scrapy,
Sandy B,
the Swans,
8 Eyed Spy,
Los Fastidios,
Blancmange,
Derrick Morgan,
Roger Hodgson,
Fluxion,
Chris & Cosey,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pylon,
MC5,
World's Most,
10cc,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Angels of Light,
Con Funk Shun,
E-Dancer,
JFA,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Qualms,
Circle Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
One Last Wish,
Main Source,
PIL,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.