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 Cuba and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 clarinet 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 The Sound to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Carl Craig,
Avey Tare,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eli Mardock,
The Remains,
Warren Ellis,
Rosa Yemen,
Desert Stars,
Graham Central Station,
Derrick Morgan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cheater Slicks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Icehouse,
ABBA,
Ossler,
Bluetip,
Agitation Free,
Connie Case,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pantytec,
Lou Christie,
Iggy Pop,
Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Crispian St. Peters,
One Last Wish,
The Happenings,
Livin' Joy,
Maurizio,
The Move,
The Moleskins,
Nas,
Junior Murvin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Unwound,
The Velvet Underground,
The Dirtbombs,
The Blues Magoos,
Roger Hodgson,
Simply Red,
Motorama,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Andrew Hill,
Absolute Body Control,
Subhumans,
kango's stein massive,
Can,
Ten City,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Albert Ayler,
H. Thieme,
The Zeros,
Dawn Penn,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Dave Clark Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kaleidoscope,
Bizarre Inc.,
The New Christs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.