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 Solomon Islands and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro 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 Bob Dylan to the techno 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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
The New Christs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Parry Music,
Monolake,
John Cale,
Dead Boys,
Pagans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cramps,
Das Ding,
Q65,
Mission of Burma,
Flash Fearless,
Tears for Fears,
The Birthday Party,
Fad Gadget,
Aloha Tigers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dawn Penn,
X-102,
Chris Corsano,
Electric Prunes,
Wire,
Vladislav Delay,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Niagra,
Rekid,
Sam Rivers,
The Moleskins,
Excepter,
Sonic Youth,
Minnie Riperton,
Nas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eric Dolphy,
Man Parrish,
Tomorrow,
Nick Fraelich,
Letta Mbulu,
Yusef Lateef,
Spandau Ballet,
Aural Exciters,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alison Limerick,
Girls At Our Best!,
Magazine,
Howard Jones,
Yaz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Vainqueur,
The Mojo Men,
Jeff Mills,
Fear,
Ronan,
Nils Olav,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.