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 Congo and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 CMW to the techno 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 The Martian. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Technova,
Joe Smooth,
Aloha Tigers,
Gang Gang Dance,
48th St. Collective,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The United States of America,
The Doobie Brothers,
Skaos,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bronski Beat,
UT,
Angry Samoans,
Flipper,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Birthday Party,
Motorama,
Hoover,
Kurtis Blow,
Minutemen,
Robert Wyatt,
Glenn Branca,
Black Sheep,
Half Japanese,
Television Personalities,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mission of Burma,
The Slackers,
John Lydon,
Babytalk,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Robert Görl,
Ponytail,
CMW,
The Saints,
Danielle Patucci,
DNA,
Duran Duran,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
kango's stein massive,
The Velvet Underground,
Colin Newman,
Sonic Youth,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fat Boys,
Suburban Knight,
Silicon Teens,
Robert Hood,
Niagra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brothers Johnson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
EPMD,
Kaleidoscope,
The J.B.'s,
Marmalade,
Vladislav Delay,
David Bowie,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.