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 Qatar and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Procol Harum to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suicide,
Bill Wells,
Can,
Pole,
The Sound,
Subhumans,
The Black Dice,
UT,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Dead Boys,
a-ha,
OOIOO,
The Real Kids,
The Gladiators,
cv313,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joe Finger,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tim Buckley,
Al Stewart,
Bauhaus,
The Remains,
X-101,
Half Japanese,
Moebius,
The Golliwogs,
Animal Collective,
Funkadelic,
the Swans,
Lalann,
Cheater Slicks,
Rhythm & Sound,
The New Christs,
John Foxx,
Ornette Coleman,
The Happenings,
The Trojans,
Anakelly,
Lightning Bolt,
Von Mondo,
Judy Mowatt,
Dark Day,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bluetip,
The Sisters of Mercy,
June of 44,
Ultravox,
The Count Five,
Loose Ends,
The Wake,
Robert Wyatt,
Jeru the Damaja,
Robert Hood,
Audionom,
Grey Daturas,
Swell Maps,
New Order,
The Durutti Column,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Silicon Teens,
Stetsasonic,
Toni Rubio,
Panda Bear,
Main Source,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.