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 Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 U.S. Maple to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Hardrive,
Isaac Hayes,
The Move,
Agent Orange,
The Gap Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Subhumans,
Talk Talk,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ice-T,
Idris Muhammad,
Tommy Roe,
Shuggie Otis,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Youth Brigade,
FM Einheit,
Mr. Review,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Aaron Thompson,
Eddi Front,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Man Eating Sloth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Minnie Riperton,
Hoover,
Soulsonic Force,
Fela Kuti,
Amon Düül,
Sam Rivers,
The Walker Brothers,
Gong,
The Barracudas,
Howard Jones,
T.S.O.L.,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Gories,
Ponytail,
The Searchers,
Freddie Wadling,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Matthew Halsall,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Smiths,
Soul II Soul,
The Associates,
The Toasters,
Nico,
Tim Buckley,
Throbbing Gristle,
Liliput,
Stereo Dub,
Banda Bassotti,
Ohio Players,
The Sonics,
Marine Girls,
Deakin,
the Human League,
Soul Sonic Force,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.