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 Kenya and from Manchester.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Angels of Light 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nirvana,
Camberwell Now,
June of 44,
Juan Atkins,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soft Cell,
The Stooges,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Deadbeat,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camouflage,
The Electric Prunes,
the Swans,
the Normal,
AZ,
Alphaville,
Silicon Teens,
The Gun Club,
The Moleskins,
Cecil Taylor,
Supertramp,
The Golliwogs,
Arthur Verocai,
Barrington Levy,
Graham Central Station,
Shoche,
Guru Guru,
a-ha,
The Black Dice,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Cluster,
Darondo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Heaven 17,
Amon Düül,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tears for Fears,
The Skatalites,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Essential Logic,
New Order,
Roxy Music,
Excepter,
Desert Stars,
Aswad,
The Fortunes,
Bluetip,
Prince Buster,
Loose Ends,
The Doors,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joensuu 1685,
The Seeds,
The Wake,
Y Pants,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.