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 Uganda and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar 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 The Five Americans to the techno 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Age Steppers,
The Smoke,
The Shadows of Knight,
Desert Stars,
ABBA,
Motorama,
UT,
Grauzone,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wings,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pet Shop Boys,
Negative Approach,
Section 25,
U.S. Maple,
Rites of Spring,
The Neon Judgement,
Average White Band,
Frankie Knuckles,
Stereo Dub,
Funkadelic,
Camouflage,
Minnie Riperton,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Joe Smooth,
Howard Jones,
Goldenarms,
cv313,
Gastr Del Sol,
Trumans Water,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Vainqueur,
The Doors,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Slick Rick,
China Crisis,
Rekid,
Tropical Tobacco,
K-Klass,
Excepter,
Quadrant,
Kenny Larkin,
Mars,
Stiv Bators,
Leonard Cohen,
DJ Style,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scrapy,
John Foxx,
Brothers Johnson,
Bill Wells,
Deepchord,
Deakin,
Ultimate Spinach,
Charles Mingus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sandy B,
Infiniti,
Subhumans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.