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 Brunei and from Manila.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Scan 7 to the rap 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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Jandek,
Howard Jones,
Alice Coltrane,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Subhumans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fela Kuti,
Charles Mingus,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Black Bananas,
Joe Finger,
In Retrospect,
Nirvana,
Gabor Szabo,
Tubeway Army,
The Fire Engines,
Khruangbin,
the Fania All-Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aswad,
10cc,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ronan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Banda Bassotti,
Brand Nubian,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Stetsasonic,
Lou Christie,
Swans,
The Velvet Underground,
Connie Case,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Womack,
Nas,
Siglo XX,
K-Klass,
Freddie Wadling,
Liliput,
Gang Green,
Jimmy McGriff,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Michelle Simonal,
Marc Almond,
X-101,
Brass Construction,
the Slits,
Sound Behaviour,
The Stooges,
Yusef Lateef,
The Divine Comedy,
Bronski Beat,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Human League,
Crispy Ambulance,
Second Layer,
The Detroit Cobras,
Desert Stars,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.