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 Nepal and from New York.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Soulsonic Force to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cybotron,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Black Dice,
Con Funk Shun,
Yusef Lateef,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mission of Burma,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
48th St. Collective,
KRS-One,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Music Machine,
The Invisible,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Quadrant,
Technova,
Metal Thangz,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
MC5,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ornette Coleman,
JFA,
Dave Gahan,
Thee Headcoats,
Mad Mike,
Kayak,
K-Klass,
Joensuu 1685,
Sixth Finger,
Scratch Acid,
Lungfish,
Jacob Miller,
Kas Product,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
R.M.O.,
Popol Vuh,
Rosa Yemen,
The Evens,
Excepter,
Masters at Work,
Blancmange,
Funkadelic,
Brick,
Quantec,
The Misunderstood,
Absolute Body Control,
Sparks,
Royal Trux,
The American Breed,
Pharoah Sanders,
Agitation Free,
AZ,
Tropical Tobacco,
Spoonie Gee,
The Fugs,
Los Fastidios,
Deepchord,
Sällskapet,
Wings,
New Age Steppers,
The Offenders,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.