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 Armenia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 rhodes 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 Neu! to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Pantytec,
Swans,
Siglo XX,
Crispian St. Peters,
James White and The Blacks,
Livin' Joy,
Minny Pops,
Inner City,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Main Source,
Scientists,
Ohio Players,
E-Dancer,
June of 44,
The Count Five,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Warren Ellis,
The Pop Group,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Qualms,
Howard Jones,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mantronix,
Basic Channel,
Bobby Byrd,
Girls At Our Best!,
Excepter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Neon Judgement,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Oneida,
Nico,
Heaven 17,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
H. Thieme,
The Black Dice,
Soulsonic Force,
Fela Kuti,
Theoretical Girls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobby Womack,
Wire,
X-102,
The Detroit Cobras,
Banda Bassotti,
Lebanon Hanover,
Saccharine Trust,
The Electric Prunes,
Crime,
Glenn Branca,
Terry Callier,
The Velvet Underground,
the Association,
Desert Stars,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mo-Dettes,
Bang On A Can,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.