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 Japan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 snare 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 China Crisis to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All Main Source 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 dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Ituana,
Aswad,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Agitation Free,
X-101,
Donny Hathaway,
Ponytail,
Cymande,
Erasure,
Brick,
The Slits,
Max Romeo,
Cheater Slicks,
Robert Hood,
Jesper Dahlback,
Erykah Badu,
Patti Smith,
Angry Samoans,
Scion,
The Pretty Things,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roy Ayers,
The Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kenny Larkin,
The Motions,
the Germs,
E-Dancer,
10cc,
Youth Brigade,
Curtis Mayfield,
New York Dolls,
Infiniti,
Delon & Dalcan,
Unrelated Segments,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Goldenarms,
New Order,
Khruangbin,
KRS-One,
Gang Green,
Todd Rundgren,
Depeche Mode,
Von Mondo,
The Knickerbockers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amazonics,
Man Eating Sloth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stetsasonic,
The Zeros,
The Trojans,
L. Decosne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Mummies,
Rotary Connection,
Ten City,
Chris Corsano,
Joe Finger,
Tears for Fears,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.