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 Croatia and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro 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 The Vogues to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
James White and The Blacks,
Outsiders,
Bang On A Can,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Minor Threat,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wolf Eyes,
Ituana,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scion,
Shuggie Otis,
Public Enemy,
Silicon Teens,
Alison Limerick,
Pere Ubu,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Cal Tjader,
Wasted Youth,
Warren Ellis,
Roy Ayers,
The Doors,
Bill Wells,
Johnny Osbourne,
Guru Guru,
Eddi Front,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Slackers,
ABC,
Matthew Halsall,
Pulsallama,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
New Age Steppers,
Skarface,
Jimmy McGriff,
Little Man,
Gabor Szabo,
Pantaleimon,
Khruangbin,
Bush Tetras,
Judy Mowatt,
The Smoke,
Scratch Acid,
Quando Quango,
Boz Scaggs,
Black Pus,
Schoolly D,
Dual Sessions,
Japan,
Gang Green,
Sight & Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cybotron,
Moss Icon,
Mars,
Patti Smith,
Prince Buster,
Newcleus,
Bobby Sherman,
Anakelly,
Boredoms,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.