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 Qatar and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Paris.
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 güiro 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 Roxy Music to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Trumans Water,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Flesh Eaters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Thee Headcoats,
Reuben Wilson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fugazi,
Rites of Spring,
Intrusion,
Lindisfarne,
Nik Kershaw,
Ituana,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Animal Collective,
Lyres,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Glenn Branca,
John Foxx,
The Remains,
Yusef Lateef,
Massinfluence,
Second Layer,
Franke,
CMW,
Rufus Thomas,
The Blackbyrds,
Mad Mike,
Skriet,
Bizarre Inc.,
Donny Hathaway,
Albert Ayler,
Stereo Dub,
Darondo,
Rekid,
Siglo XX,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fad Gadget,
Hasil Adkins,
Section 25,
Von Mondo,
Crash Course in Science,
The Cowsills,
Sonny Sharrock,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
China Crisis,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Wake,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Buzzcocks,
AZ,
Kurtis Blow,
Young Marble Giants,
Jerry Gold Smith,
John Lydon,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.