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 Madagascar and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Cluster to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blues Magoos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Erasure,
The Mighty Diamonds,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eddi Front,
Eyeless In Gaza,
CMW,
Chris Corsano,
Mantronix,
Jandek,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ice-T,
Nirvana,
Clear Light,
Rapeman,
Kenny Larkin,
Donny Hathaway,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ronan,
The Red Krayola,
Newcleus,
The Grass Roots,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sight & Sound,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ten City,
Terry Callier,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
June Days,
The Human League,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Wake,
Gabor Szabo,
Barbara Tucker,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
New York Dolls,
Curtis Mayfield,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sun City Girls,
Black Sheep,
Pagans,
The Gories,
Amazonics,
Moebius,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lungfish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Don Cherry,
Ohio Players,
Theoretical Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Howard Jones,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pulsallama,
the Soft Cell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Alison Limerick,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.