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 Argentina and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum 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 Donny Hathaway to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Searchers. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tom Boy,
The Blackbyrds,
Alison Limerick,
Robert Wyatt,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang Starr,
L. Decosne,
Lungfish,
June Days,
David Axelrod,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tubeway Army,
Magma,
Erasure,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Infiniti,
Bad Manners,
Unrelated Segments,
the Soft Cell,
Crash Course in Science,
Bill Wells,
These Immortal Souls,
Second Layer,
Hoover,
Hashim,
Isaac Hayes,
Anthony Braxton,
Deepchord,
Black Sheep,
The Durutti Column,
Byron Stingily,
The Move,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Organ,
The Remains,
Prince Buster,
Anakelly,
Zapp,
John Lydon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Alice Coltrane,
Peter and Kerry,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Busters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grey Daturas,
The Raincoats,
Dual Sessions,
Sister Nancy,
Goldenarms,
Glenn Branca,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
This Heat,
The Black Dice,
Black Moon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.