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 Kazakhstan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kevin Saunderson to the jazz 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All U.S. Maple tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stetsasonic,
R.M.O.,
Lou Christie,
Swans,
Main Source,
Ludus,
Mad Mike,
Tropical Tobacco,
Trumans Water,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sonic Youth,
Amon Düül,
Lower 48,
Spandau Ballet,
Minor Threat,
Gichy Dan,
The Offenders,
The Standells,
Shoche,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Quantec,
Colin Newman,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bluetip,
Arthur Verocai,
Ice-T,
Audionom,
Au Pairs,
Curtis Mayfield,
AZ,
Schoolly D,
Sarah Menescal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hasil Adkins,
Magazine,
Rufus Thomas,
The Modern Lovers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jeff Lynne,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bob Dylan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Archie Shepp,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gladiators,
Moss Icon,
The Skatalites,
The Young Rascals,
LL Cool J,
Alphaville,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Hot Snakes,
The Vogues,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Skarface,
Dave Gahan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Smog,
Soulsonic Force,
The Move,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.