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 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
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 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Reuben Wilson to the rock 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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dirtbombs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Flash Fearless,
Aural Exciters,
Essential Logic,
Nico,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ossler,
Cymande,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Warren Ellis,
The United States of America,
Bluetip,
Franke,
Desert Stars,
New Age Steppers,
The Pretty Things,
The Smiths,
Soft Cell,
Althea and Donna,
The Gories,
The Detroit Cobras,
Magazine,
Nik Kershaw,
Newcleus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marine Girls,
Black Sheep,
John Lydon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Amazonics,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Idris Muhammad,
Schoolly D,
Michelle Simonal,
Brothers Johnson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
China Crisis,
Maurizio,
Sound Behaviour,
Neil Young,
Charles Mingus,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Associates,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ronnie Foster,
Ultravox,
Al Stewart,
Fat Boys,
The Selecter,
This Heat,
Robert Wyatt,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobbi Humphrey,
X-Ray Spex,
Masters at Work,
Scrapy,
Eric B and Rakim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.