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 Guinea-Bissau and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Tubeway Army to the rock 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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Sheep,
Gabor Szabo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Television,
Marshall Jefferson,
Can,
the Human League,
The Cowsills,
Junior Murvin,
Swans,
The Cramps,
Gichy Dan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gang of Four,
Cybotron,
Swell Maps,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Roy Ayers,
June of 44,
Massinfluence,
Theoretical Girls,
Todd Terry,
Aloha Tigers,
The Electric Prunes,
Ronan,
Roxy Music,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Das Ding,
Eric Copeland,
Little Man,
Nico,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Monks,
Rod Modell,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pere Ubu,
The Velvet Underground,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Raincoats,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barry Ungar,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dorothy Ashby,
Blancmange,
The Golliwogs,
Hot Snakes,
Negative Approach,
Flipper,
The Invisible,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siglo XX,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gerry Rafferty,
Unwound,
Hoover,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.