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 Singapore and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Faust to the rock 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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
The Mummies,
Althea and Donna,
Cameo,
Pantaleimon,
Bad Manners,
The Gap Band,
Newcleus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
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the Fania All-Stars,
Bronski Beat,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Chris Corsano,
Duran Duran,
Quando Quango,
Yazoo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Danielle Patucci,
Ash Ra Tempel,
X-Ray Spex,
Pere Ubu,
Matthew Halsall,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Moody Blues,
Sparks,
Main Source,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minutemen,
Skaos,
Boogie Down Productions,
Reagan Youth,
The Blackbyrds,
Funky Four + One,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rotary Connection,
Infiniti,
Alton Ellis,
Lightning Bolt,
Monolake,
David Bowie,
Flash Fearless,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Saints,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Tim Buckley,
Kenny Larkin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
CMW,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Theoretical Girls,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Public Enemy,
Sun Ra,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gastr Del Sol,
Underground Resistance,
Alice Coltrane,
ABC,
Slick Rick,
Soulsonic Force,
The American Breed,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.