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 Denmark and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Chrome to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Rotary Connection,
Henry Cow,
Brass Construction,
A Certain Ratio,
the Normal,
Swell Maps,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Von Mondo,
Moebius,
Radiopuhelimet,
Quando Quango,
The Happenings,
James White and The Blacks,
Tears for Fears,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slick Rick,
Rekid,
Stetsasonic,
Barrington Levy,
Hot Snakes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Susan Cadogan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Pretty Things,
OOIOO,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kas Product,
Siglo XX,
Minutemen,
Marcia Griffiths,
Youth Brigade,
Ituana,
The Durutti Column,
The Toasters,
Eric B and Rakim,
Accadde A,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Angry Samoans,
Mad Mike,
Black Sheep,
Sparks,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Flesh Eaters,
New Age Steppers,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Grass Roots,
Oneida,
Vainqueur,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Aural Exciters,
Royal Trux,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Erykah Badu,
Charles Mingus,
The Kinks,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.