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 Slovakia and from Cairo.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Circle Jerks to the grime 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Dave Gahan,
Sun City Girls,
Agent Orange,
Shuggie Otis,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bill Wells,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Spoonie Gee,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacques Brel,
Intrusion,
Dual Sessions,
Deakin,
Crash Course in Science,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Fall,
David McCallum,
The New Christs,
U.S. Maple,
David Axelrod,
Todd Rundgren,
Dennis Brown,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fuzztones,
Bill Near,
Althea and Donna,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Echospace,
Sandy B,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Soft Machine,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pet Shop Boys,
Radio Birdman,
Andrew Hill,
Yazoo,
Wolf Eyes,
Electric Prunes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Half Japanese,
Banda Bassotti,
Lightning Bolt,
Blossom Toes,
Iggy Pop,
The Standells,
Quando Quango,
Bizarre Inc.,
Main Source,
D'Angelo,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Zeros,
Altered Images,
Anakelly,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rod Modell,
Vainqueur,
T. Rex,
Public Image Ltd.,
Don Cherry,
Patti Smith,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Fortunes,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.