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 Norway and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 Icehouse to the disco 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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Pulsallama,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Glenn Branca,
Pantaleimon,
Harmonia,
Curtis Mayfield,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Organ,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Anthony Braxton,
Peter and Kerry,
Das Ding,
Spandau Ballet,
The Slits,
Barbara Tucker,
LL Cool J,
Country Teasers,
Goldenarms,
Liliput,
Blancmange,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Panda Bear,
The Buckinghams,
X-101,
David Axelrod,
Ohio Players,
Ronan,
Morten Harket,
Outsiders,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Royal Trux,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Crime,
Isaac Hayes,
the Soft Cell,
Joensuu 1685,
L. Decosne,
Chris & Cosey,
Lungfish,
Delta 5,
Zero Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Al Stewart,
Freddie Wadling,
The Monochrome Set,
The Divine Comedy,
Reagan Youth,
Icehouse,
Main Source,
Marine Girls,
Aswad,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kurtis Blow,
Angry Samoans,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.