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 Chile and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 JFA to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Patti Smith,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Fugs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Don Cherry,
Gregory Isaacs,
Clear Light,
Sarah Menescal,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Mummies,
Rotary Connection,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Half Japanese,
Siglo XX,
The Residents,
Ronnie Foster,
Chris & Cosey,
Cymande,
Visage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Leonard Cohen,
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Sun City Girls,
Scan 7,
The Angels of Light,
KRS-One,
New York Dolls,
Lucky Dragons,
Graham Central Station,
10cc,
Inner City,
Rufus Thomas,
Audionom,
The Real Kids,
Agent Orange,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rod Modell,
Joyce Sims,
X-102,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pantytec,
X-101,
Jeff Lynne,
Make Up,
The Fire Engines,
Skriet,
Iggy Pop,
Joe Smooth,
Letta Mbulu,
Ralphi Rosario,
Motorama,
The Zeros,
The Blackbyrds,
Jimmy McGriff,
Donny Hathaway,
Colin Newman,
Magazine,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.