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 Japan and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Beijing.
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 Sister Nancy to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
The Happenings,
Minor Threat,
Mo-Dettes,
The Associates,
Moby Grape,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mandrill,
The Zeros,
Moebius,
Idris Muhammad,
Matthew Bourne,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Index,
Organ,
Soft Machine,
T. Rex,
Ornette Coleman,
the Swans,
Youth Brigade,
Ken Boothe,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Swell Maps,
Cybotron,
Ponytail,
Negative Approach,
Flash Fearless,
Infiniti,
E-Dancer,
Sällskapet,
Pantaleimon,
Fat Boys,
The Buckinghams,
The Divine Comedy,
Rapeman,
Wasted Youth,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Joy Division,
The Monochrome Set,
UT,
Piero Umiliani,
Yellowson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Model 500,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Toni Rubio,
Excepter,
Flipper,
The Last Poets,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Animal Collective,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Franke,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.