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 Suriname and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Amon Düül II to the crunk 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 Selector Dub Narcotic. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Prunes,
The Associates,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Gap Band,
Tomorrow,
Tom Boy,
John Cale,
Charles Mingus,
Los Fastidios,
the Sonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Slave,
Banda Bassotti,
Soft Cell,
The Sound,
the Human League,
Nils Olav,
Sam Rivers,
The Kinks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Hoover,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Howard Jones,
Basic Channel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dawn Penn,
Don Cherry,
Henry Cow,
Archie Shepp,
Flipper,
The Detroit Cobras,
Prince Buster,
Andrew Hill,
Davy DMX,
Icehouse,
Technova,
Todd Rundgren,
Cameo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Soulsonic Force,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Masters at Work,
Barclay James Harvest,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
MDC,
Iggy Pop,
Sex Pistols,
AZ,
Index,
Subhumans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
T. Rex,
These Immortal Souls,
Mark Hollis,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.