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 Thailand and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Motorama to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Outsiders,
Warren Ellis,
Funky Four + One,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sällskapet,
Agitation Free,
Altered Images,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Albert Ayler,
Black Pus,
Lower 48,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Iggy Pop,
Jandek,
Yazoo,
The Flesh Eaters,
Con Funk Shun,
The Count Five,
Skriet,
Cal Tjader,
AZ,
The Toasters,
Urselle,
Accadde A,
Main Source,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Guru Guru,
The Gories,
R.M.O.,
Grey Daturas,
The Techniques,
Icehouse,
The Wake,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Smiths,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gabor Szabo,
Ossler,
Radio Birdman,
Wire,
Lungfish,
Rosa Yemen,
Fat Boys,
Robert Görl,
Black Bananas,
These Immortal Souls,
Vainqueur,
Scientists,
Youth Brigade,
cv313,
X-Ray Spex,
The Sound,
Prince Buster,
Crash Course in Science,
Henry Cow,
The Monochrome Set,
Underground Resistance,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.