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 Kuwait and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 Rotary Connection to the punk 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Misunderstood,
Ituana,
T.S.O.L.,
China Crisis,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Essential Logic,
Pylon,
Yazoo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Flash Fearless,
Talk Talk,
Skriet,
Tubeway Army,
KRS-One,
Ultra Naté,
Avey Tare,
The Dirtbombs,
R.M.O.,
The Evens,
Chrome,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dual Sessions,
Funkadelic,
Stereo Dub,
Urselle,
Terrestrial Tones,
48th St. Collective,
Altered Images,
Suicide,
Au Pairs,
Carl Craig,
Oblivians,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Accadde A,
Eden Ahbez,
Steve Hackett,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fugs,
The Gap Band,
Rakim,
Scientists,
Derrick May,
Curtis Mayfield,
Soul II Soul,
The Gladiators,
The American Breed,
Swans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Electric Prunes,
Roger Hodgson,
The Cowsills,
The Invisible,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ten City,
OOIOO,
The Move,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jerry's Kids,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.