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 Vanuatu and from London.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Edmonton.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Walker Brothers to the electroclash 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Adolescents,
Joy Division,
Shoche,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Monochrome Set,
Sex Pistols,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Man Parrish,
Sun Ra,
Ice-T,
Skaos,
Lucky Dragons,
Vladislav Delay,
Joe Smooth,
Lightning Bolt,
Television,
Silicon Teens,
Janne Schatter,
Charles Mingus,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eden Ahbez,
The Tremeloes,
Scan 7,
Marine Girls,
Babytalk,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
One Last Wish,
The Dead C,
The Slits,
The Doors,
Tom Boy,
Wally Richardson,
Colin Newman,
Danielle Patucci,
The Cowsills,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Negative Approach,
Joyce Sims,
Cybotron,
LL Cool J,
Ash Ra Tempel,
June of 44,
John Cale,
Deepchord,
Connie Case,
Yaz,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
cv313,
Patti Smith,
ABC,
Tomorrow,
Anthony Braxton,
Sam Rivers,
Sonic Youth,
Leonard Cohen,
Black Sheep,
The Stooges,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.