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 Iceland and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 David Bowie 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 Ajijia Myrayebe to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Unrelated Segments,
Nas,
Pere Ubu,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Glenn Branca,
The Gun Club,
Bauhaus,
Smog,
Toni Rubio,
David Bowie,
Alphaville,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Aaron Thompson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marc Almond,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lalann,
Reuben Wilson,
The Leaves,
Neu!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Zapp,
X-Ray Spex,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ice-T,
China Crisis,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Banda Bassotti,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Excepter,
Aswad,
Goldenarms,
Sonic Youth,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ken Boothe,
Scan 7,
The Cowsills,
Maurizio,
Fifty Foot Hose,
OOIOO,
Ronnie Foster,
The Misunderstood,
The Mummies,
Skarface,
Newcleus,
The Fire Engines,
Joe Finger,
Byron Stingily,
Lakeside,
David Axelrod,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
ABBA,
Mission of Burma,
MC5,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nils Olav,
PIL,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.