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 Egypt and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 sitar 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 Roxette to the dance 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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Royal Trux,
Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Stooges,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Litter,
Aloha Tigers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Robert Wyatt,
Newcleus,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kayak,
The Searchers,
the Human League,
Derrick May,
Freddie Wadling,
Marvin Gaye,
The Fall,
The Victims,
David McCallum,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Crime,
the Sonics,
Graham Central Station,
Au Pairs,
The Gories,
DJ Style,
Aural Exciters,
Tubeway Army,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Evens,
Arab on Radar,
Danielle Patucci,
Gabor Szabo,
Schoolly D,
Eric Copeland,
Boz Scaggs,
The Saints,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Amon Düül,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Connie Case,
Little Man,
The Selecter,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sun Ra,
Judy Mowatt,
The Blackbyrds,
Peter and Kerry,
Hashim,
Donny Hathaway,
Rotary Connection,
Robert Görl,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Liliput,
Al Stewart,
R.M.O.,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.