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 Liberia and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Circle Jerks to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Byron Stingily. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
The Birthday Party,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Vladislav Delay,
Theoretical Girls,
Yusef Lateef,
Bill Wells,
Ituana,
Throbbing Gristle,
Thompson Twins,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Wolf Eyes,
Roxette,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sixth Finger,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lower 48,
Ultravox,
The Music Machine,
Lou Reed,
China Crisis,
The Mojo Men,
Unrelated Segments,
The Wake,
Barry Ungar,
Eurythmics,
Scientists,
Rod Modell,
Metal Thangz,
Groovy Waters,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Fire Engines,
Ten City,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Offenders,
Dual Sessions,
Sun Ra,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Sonics,
Eve St. Jones,
The Five Americans,
Los Fastidios,
Simply Red,
The Sound,
Pharoah Sanders,
Main Source,
Henry Cow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
X-Ray Spex,
Anakelly,
LL Cool J,
The Pop Group,
Joensuu 1685,
Audionom,
Mo-Dettes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Max Romeo,
Lalann,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.