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 Uzbekistan and from Copenhagen.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar 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 Newcleus to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
The Seeds,
Cluster,
Kas Product,
Morten Harket,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jeff Lynne,
Janne Schatter,
Glambeats Corp.,
the Normal,
OOIOO,
DJ Style,
Laurel Aitken,
Pantytec,
The Modern Lovers,
Urselle,
James White and The Blacks,
Smog,
China Crisis,
Con Funk Shun,
Eve St. Jones,
Mary Jane Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crime,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Delon & Dalcan,
Letta Mbulu,
Television,
Robert Görl,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Chris Corsano,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pierre Henry,
Basic Channel,
Nico,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Kinks,
Grey Daturas,
The Music Machine,
Cal Tjader,
Bad Manners,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tres Demented,
Aswad,
Popol Vuh,
Tim Buckley,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Make Up,
10cc,
The Techniques,
Mars,
David Bowie,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pagans,
Derrick Morgan,
Ludus,
Ituana,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.