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 Fiji and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 theremin 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 Audionom to the grunge 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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
The Knickerbockers,
Reagan Youth,
Altered Images,
David Axelrod,
The Standells,
The Toasters,
Andrew Hill,
Morten Harket,
Iggy Pop,
Minnie Riperton,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fugazi,
Black Bananas,
Slick Rick,
Connie Case,
Nas,
Crispy Ambulance,
Piero Umiliani,
Chrome,
The Cure,
Joy Division,
Magazine,
Stiv Bators,
the Normal,
Scratch Acid,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fire Engines,
the Human League,
Charles Mingus,
Camberwell Now,
The Gun Club,
Gabor Szabo,
The Names,
The Detroit Cobras,
Deepchord,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rotary Connection,
Magma,
Kenny Larkin,
Sam Rivers,
the Soft Cell,
Make Up,
B.T. Express,
Ten City,
Peter & Gordon,
Archie Shepp,
The Seeds,
Kevin Saunderson,
Crime,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Porter Ricks,
Kerri Chandler,
The Five Americans,
Jeff Mills,
Kas Product,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Delta 5,
R.M.O.,
Maurizio,
Boz Scaggs,
Liliput,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.