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 Bulgaria and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Swell Maps to the techno 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Chrome,
One Last Wish,
The Zeros,
Scott Walker,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kas Product,
Basic Channel,
Subhumans,
Bobby Womack,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Monks,
Dual Sessions,
F. McDonald,
Livin' Joy,
the Swans,
Dorothy Ashby,
Laurel Aitken,
Soul II Soul,
The Evens,
Mandrill,
Lungfish,
Organ,
The Index,
Barbara Tucker,
New Age Steppers,
Amazonics,
Ten City,
Little Man,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Gories,
Nico,
Royal Trux,
Archie Shepp,
The Gun Club,
Joey Negro,
Young Marble Giants,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare,
Saccharine Trust,
The Monochrome Set,
Eden Ahbez,
Animal Collective,
Johnny Osbourne,
The New Christs,
AZ,
Sixth Finger,
Blake Baxter,
Delta 5,
Dead Boys,
Magma,
Pussy Galore,
Bob Dylan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fugazi,
Eli Mardock,
Matthew Halsall,
Wally Richardson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eve St. Jones,
MC5,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.