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 Philippines and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Aaron Thompson to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Brand Nubian,
X-102,
Pussy Galore,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Section 25,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Tremeloes,
Sparks,
Alice Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Moleskins,
Glenn Branca,
The Angels of Light,
Mantronix,
The Cowsills,
Khruangbin,
Cybotron,
The Human League,
H. Thieme,
Marshall Jefferson,
Delta 5,
Todd Terry,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
UT,
The Gap Band,
ABC,
Urselle,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Sonics,
Cameo,
Derrick Morgan,
The Busters,
Fluxion,
Glambeats Corp.,
kango's stein massive,
Smog,
Danielle Patucci,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Holt,
The Slits,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Byrd,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
One Last Wish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Little Man,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Boredoms,
The Count Five,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scrapy,
The Dead C,
The Real Kids,
Ken Boothe,
The United States of America,
the Germs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lou Reed,
The Grass Roots,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.