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 Mexico and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 marimba 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 Chrome to the disco 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dennis Brown,
Henry Cow,
The Mojo Men,
Tears for Fears,
Motorama,
Sandy B,
Flash Fearless,
Altered Images,
The American Breed,
Blancmange,
Gastr Del Sol,
Organ,
EPMD,
The Dead C,
Nas,
T. Rex,
Half Japanese,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Suicide,
Gabor Szabo,
Barrington Levy,
Nik Kershaw,
The J.B.'s,
Mantronix,
Bobby Sherman,
Absolute Body Control,
Khruangbin,
The Stooges,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Black Dice,
Man Parrish,
Tubeway Army,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Desert Stars,
China Crisis,
the Fania All-Stars,
Traffic Nightmare,
Amazonics,
The Pop Group,
10cc,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ice-T,
Jerry's Kids,
Nils Olav,
Anakelly,
Ultra Naté,
Fela Kuti,
Angry Samoans,
the Human League,
Black Moon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kerri Chandler,
Masters at Work,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mandrill,
UT,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
June of 44,
Robert Hood,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.