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 Monaco and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 arpeggiator 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 Robert Görl to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Sugar Minott,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Man Eating Sloth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pagans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Banda Bassotti,
Dennis Brown,
The Gap Band,
Iggy Pop,
Ten City,
Amon Düül II,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dawn Penn,
Barrington Levy,
Duran Duran,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Barry Ungar,
Todd Terry,
Godley & Creme,
Blake Baxter,
Kayak,
These Immortal Souls,
Buzzcocks,
June of 44,
Jacques Brel,
Ohio Players,
Lindisfarne,
Scrapy,
kango's stein massive,
Saccharine Trust,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Thee Headcoats,
Pussy Galore,
the Fania All-Stars,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DNA,
Graham Central Station,
Siglo XX,
Zapp,
Jeff Mills,
Newcleus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Brothers Johnson,
Jawbox,
Depeche Mode,
EPMD,
The Index,
Trumans Water,
Echospace,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fuzztones,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Kinks,
H. Thieme,
Grey Daturas,
Spoonie Gee,
Shuggie Otis,
Q and Not U,
the Sonics,
Mars,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas.
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.