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 Switzerland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ohio Players to the grime 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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
The Fugs,
Eric Dolphy,
Icehouse,
the Normal,
Adolescents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Deadbeat,
Letta Mbulu,
Susan Cadogan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Victims,
Johnny Clarke,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jeff Lynne,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Severed Heads,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kayak,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Index,
Junior Murvin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Peter & Gordon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Reagan Youth,
Todd Rundgren,
Bill Near,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mars,
Scrapy,
Donald Byrd,
Soul II Soul,
The Cure,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
EPMD,
Anthony Braxton,
Yusef Lateef,
Parry Music,
Ultimate Spinach,
Danielle Patucci,
Sonic Youth,
Crooked Eye,
June of 44,
Television Personalities,
Bauhaus,
Das Ding,
Talk Talk,
June Days,
Tom Boy,
F. McDonald,
Camouflage,
Motorama,
Flash Fearless,
Ronan,
Albert Ayler,
Nas,
Gang Green,
MDC,
Sound Behaviour,
Technova,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.