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 Japan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Victims. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jacques Brel,
Magazine,
The Cramps,
The Fortunes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Silicon Teens,
Don Cherry,
The Blackbyrds,
Echospace,
Jacob Miller,
Danielle Patucci,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wings,
Tomorrow,
Radio Birdman,
Johnny Clarke,
Boz Scaggs,
Bang On A Can,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Thompson Twins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Barracudas,
Jeff Lynne,
The Residents,
Chris Corsano,
Alison Limerick,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Tremeloes,
Talk Talk,
John Holt,
Bob Dylan,
Lalann,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rites of Spring,
Marshall Jefferson,
Donald Byrd,
Absolute Body Control,
Magma,
A Certain Ratio,
Delon & Dalcan,
Youth Brigade,
Sarah Menescal,
Gastr Del Sol,
Matthew Bourne,
Maleditus Sound,
Arthur Verocai,
Buzzcocks,
Amon Düül,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Doors,
Duran Duran,
Joy Division,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Soft Cell,
Pantaleimon,
Harry Pussy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sonic Youth,
Ohio Players,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.