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 Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 UT to the disco 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Brothers Johnson,
Adolescents,
Leonard Cohen,
The Buckinghams,
Dark Day,
Fugazi,
ABBA,
Soft Machine,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Barry Ungar,
The Last Poets,
Pharoah Sanders,
Shoche,
Charles Mingus,
Tomorrow,
Thompson Twins,
Johnny Osbourne,
Matthew Bourne,
Max Romeo,
Underground Resistance,
Newcleus,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mo-Dettes,
Animal Collective,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dual Sessions,
Faraquet,
Dave Gahan,
The Mummies,
Camouflage,
Neil Young,
Stereo Dub,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The J.B.'s,
Babytalk,
Little Man,
Hasil Adkins,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Busters,
China Crisis,
Loose Ends,
Mark Hollis,
Funky Four + One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Chrome,
Hot Snakes,
Nico,
Ornette Coleman,
10cc,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Youth Brigade,
MDC,
Kerri Chandler,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Black Flag,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Audionom,
The Fall,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.