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 Portugal and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 chamberlin 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 Gichy Dan to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Mo-Dettes,
The Gap Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Offenders,
T.S.O.L.,
Loose Ends,
The Cowsills,
The Fugs,
Ten City,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kayak,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Aloha Tigers,
Joy Division,
The Modern Lovers,
Black Sheep,
Sandy B,
The Mojo Men,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Associates,
Pylon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Funky Four + One,
Black Moon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yaz,
Yusef Lateef,
Tim Buckley,
Derrick Morgan,
The Tremeloes,
Isaac Hayes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Invisible,
Todd Rundgren,
Dead Boys,
The Gories,
The Zeros,
Crooked Eye,
Hardrive,
the Fania All-Stars,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lindisfarne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DJ Sneak,
Sällskapet,
Urselle,
The Vogues,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Nils Olav,
New Order,
The Searchers,
Vainqueur,
Lucky Dragons,
Silicon Teens,
B.T. Express,
Robert Hood,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.