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 Pakistan and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jeff Mills to the disco 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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Severed Heads,
Intrusion,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Infiniti,
The Red Krayola,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Joy Division,
Oblivians,
Skaos,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Slits,
The Gladiators,
Pantaleimon,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Pretty Things,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Fortunes,
The Last Poets,
Soulsonic Force,
Unwound,
Pere Ubu,
Wasted Youth,
Scientists,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
kango's stein massive,
Erasure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Anakelly,
Khruangbin,
Kayak,
PIL,
Joe Smooth,
Drive Like Jehu,
Brothers Johnson,
Bad Manners,
Spandau Ballet,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kenny Larkin,
Alphaville,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Birthday Party,
The Electric Prunes,
Make Up,
Dark Day,
The Invisible,
Tomorrow,
Hashim,
Basic Channel,
Lungfish,
Bootsy Collins,
The Stooges,
New Order,
The Five Americans,
Crash Course in Science,
Gabor Szabo,
Barbara Tucker,
Toni Rubio,
Banda Bassotti,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Maleditus Sound,
Marine Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.