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 Nepal and from Sao Paulo.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Harpers Bizarre to the disco 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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Stetsasonic,
Simply Red,
Boogie Down Productions,
Vladislav Delay,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
Organ,
Oneida,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jesper Dahlback,
Grandmaster Flash,
Clear Light,
Jeru the Damaja,
Howard Jones,
Black Pus,
John Cale,
Stiv Bators,
The Last Poets,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sparks,
Make Up,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Hasil Adkins,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Niagra,
Youth Brigade,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Velvet Underground,
Visage,
The Gap Band,
The Cowsills,
Al Stewart,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hashim,
Cecil Taylor,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kayak,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lalo Schifrin,
Albert Ayler,
Excepter,
Faust,
Toni Rubio,
Roy Ayers,
Liliput,
The Busters,
The Blackbyrds,
Sun City Girls,
The Names,
Jawbox,
Tres Demented,
Con Funk Shun,
L. Decosne,
The Music Machine,
The Slackers,
Matthew Halsall,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Section 25,
Severed Heads,
Pantytec,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.