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 Zambia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Organ 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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mad Mike,
Mantronix,
The Names,
Quadrant,
The Velvet Underground,
Ten City,
The Pretty Things,
The Neon Judgement,
Duran Duran,
Cluster,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Dirtbombs,
The Gories,
Livin' Joy,
Agent Orange,
Ituana,
The Last Poets,
The Invisible,
Von Mondo,
The Electric Prunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
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Connie Case,
Black Bananas,
Fatback Band,
Can,
Girls At Our Best!,
Steve Hackett,
Scion,
Goldenarms,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Alarm Clocks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Toni Rubio,
Donny Hathaway,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ornette Coleman,
Bauhaus,
Warren Ellis,
Erykah Badu,
Black Sheep,
Angry Samoans,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Cure,
Tim Buckley,
Rufus Thomas,
Suburban Knight,
Aloha Tigers,
The Monochrome Set,
Marcia Griffiths,
Amon Düül II,
Janne Schatter,
The Litter,
Desert Stars,
Dave Gahan,
James White and The Blacks,
Barbara Tucker,
Skarface,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.