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 Comoros and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gong to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Hot Snakes,
the Human League,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Second Layer,
Bobby Womack,
The Dave Clark Five,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Offenders,
Unrelated Segments,
Skaos,
Archie Shepp,
Amon Düül,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Tom Boy,
Fear,
Kas Product,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Lydon,
Robert Wyatt,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alton Ellis,
In Retrospect,
Audionom,
Mr. Review,
Tropical Tobacco,
Model 500,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Moon,
Oblivians,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rod Modell,
R.M.O.,
The Monochrome Set,
Man Parrish,
Babytalk,
The Beau Brummels,
Connie Case,
Spandau Ballet,
a-ha,
Sixth Finger,
Oneida,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scan 7,
The Motions,
Robert Görl,
Aloha Tigers,
10cc,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Toni Rubio,
The Techniques,
Colin Newman,
Isaac Hayes,
Warren Ellis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eddi Front,
Von Mondo,
June Days,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.