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 Cyprus and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Shanghai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Trojans to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Crash Course in Science,
Carl Craig,
Tres Demented,
Second Layer,
Jimmy McGriff,
Frankie Knuckles,
the Human League,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Germs,
Bootsy Collins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Essential Logic,
Young Marble Giants,
Eve St. Jones,
Bill Near,
Ultravox,
The Raincoats,
The Golliwogs,
China Crisis,
Public Enemy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sixth Finger,
Stiv Bators,
Minor Threat,
Infiniti,
Colin Newman,
Popol Vuh,
Smog,
Khruangbin,
Wolf Eyes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Smiths,
Pagans,
Anakelly,
Jeff Mills,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Neon Judgement,
Joe Finger,
Archie Shepp,
Maurizio,
DJ Style,
Max Romeo,
Cal Tjader,
Flash Fearless,
Ponytail,
The Searchers,
Siglo XX,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gang Starr,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Howard Jones,
Eric Copeland,
The Gun Club,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Andrew Hill,
Tomorrow,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Chris & Cosey,
Scan 7,
Dead Boys,
Laurel Aitken,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
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.