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 Liechtenstein and from Edmonton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Masters at Work,
Aswad,
the Bar-Kays,
Country Joe & The Fish,
LL Cool J,
Second Layer,
The Motions,
Bootsy Collins,
Malaria!,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Sound,
Nico,
the Slits,
Au Pairs,
The Barracudas,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Morten Harket,
Darondo,
Easy Going,
Faust,
Skaos,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gichy Dan,
Sun City Girls,
the Human League,
Flipper,
Altered Images,
Sixth Finger,
The Gap Band,
48th St. Collective,
Brand Nubian,
Robert Hood,
Nik Kershaw,
Aloha Tigers,
Reagan Youth,
Kaleidoscope,
Visage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marmalade,
MC5,
Average White Band,
Scan 7,
Janne Schatter,
Inner City,
Cal Tjader,
Neu!,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fatback Band,
Quadrant,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Swans,
The Raincoats,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
One Last Wish,
Ultra Naté,
Crooked Eye,
The Real Kids,
La Düsseldorf,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slackers,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.