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 Germany and from Paris.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Blackbyrds to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gladiators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
The Star Department,
Adolescents,
Joe Smooth,
Sex Pistols,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soft Machine,
John Coltrane,
Susan Cadogan,
Piero Umiliani,
Aaron Thompson,
Saccharine Trust,
Nik Kershaw,
Charles Mingus,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Skatalites,
Thompson Twins,
Hot Snakes,
Josef K,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eric B and Rakim,
Isaac Hayes,
Pagans,
Robert Görl,
the Swans,
Swell Maps,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Animal Collective,
Mr. Review,
Porter Ricks,
MDC,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hashim,
Stereo Dub,
Soulsonic Force,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Barry Ungar,
Funkadelic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The American Breed,
Erykah Badu,
Public Enemy,
Japan,
Stiv Bators,
Babytalk,
Public Image Ltd.,
Con Funk Shun,
kango's stein massive,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Dead C,
Cluster,
Reagan Youth,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ituana,
The United States of America,
Kayak,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
R.M.O.,
Juan Atkins,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Negative Approach,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.