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 Malawi and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 snare 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 Andrew Hill to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Seeds. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Robert Görl,
Cybotron,
Ronnie Foster,
Pere Ubu,
Scion,
The Skatalites,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Whodini,
Danielle Patucci,
Quantec,
Brass Construction,
The Move,
Black Flag,
Mission of Burma,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lou Reed,
Average White Band,
Henry Cow,
Joensuu 1685,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Minor Threat,
Little Man,
Gang of Four,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aaron Thompson,
These Immortal Souls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Doors,
the Sonics,
Lee Hazlewood,
48th St. Collective,
June of 44,
Bootsy Collins,
Drive Like Jehu,
Accadde A,
Deepchord,
The Evens,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Grauzone,
Hot Snakes,
Mad Mike,
Gerry Rafferty,
Model 500,
Godley & Creme,
The Electric Prunes,
The New Christs,
Outsiders,
Harmonia,
Mark Hollis,
Bill Wells,
cv313,
X-Ray Spex,
Pole,
The Saints,
The Real Kids,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Harpers Bizarre,
Janne Schatter,
The Pretty Things,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.