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 Belgium and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 rhodes 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 Ohio Players to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Derrick May,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joy Division,
New York Dolls,
Model 500,
Ronnie Foster,
Dawn Penn,
The Beau Brummels,
The Stooges,
E-Dancer,
Scrapy,
ABC,
Make Up,
The Remains,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The American Breed,
Arcadia,
Porter Ricks,
The Five Americans,
Letta Mbulu,
Bobby Womack,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mantronix,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Hoover,
Audionom,
Wally Richardson,
Althea and Donna,
Fela Kuti,
The Durutti Column,
Laurel Aitken,
Babytalk,
The Sound,
World's Most,
Visage,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sight & Sound,
Funkadelic,
Tubeway Army,
Duran Duran,
Guru Guru,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Patti Smith,
The Cowsills,
Main Source,
Spoonie Gee,
Lungfish,
John Cale,
Alphaville,
Ohio Players,
Scientists,
Nick Fraelich,
Kerri Chandler,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Gap Band,
Godley & Creme,
Frankie Knuckles,
U.S. Maple,
Deakin,
Connie Case,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.