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 Burkina and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Soulsonic Force to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
The Fugs,
Agitation Free,
Camouflage,
Joey Negro,
Basic Channel,
Dawn Penn,
Crash Course in Science,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rosa Yemen,
Section 25,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Roxette,
Reuben Wilson,
Tubeway Army,
Black Sheep,
The Five Americans,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Human League,
Organ,
The Sonics,
June Days,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sixth Finger,
The Young Rascals,
Kool Moe Dee,
Aaron Thompson,
UT,
Derrick Morgan,
Dennis Brown,
Bootsy Collins,
Gil Scott Heron,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Todd Rundgren,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
A Certain Ratio,
Robert Görl,
The Zeros,
48th St. Collective,
Dead Boys,
10cc,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grey Daturas,
Bush Tetras,
Qualms,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Happenings,
Bobby Hutcherson,
R.M.O.,
Alison Limerick,
Radio Birdman,
Chris Corsano,
Isaac Hayes,
Sound Behaviour,
Rod Modell,
Suicide,
The Knickerbockers,
Fluxion,
Sarah Menescal,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.