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 India and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar 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 Blake Baxter to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kaleidoscope,
Ornette Coleman,
Funkadelic,
Thompson Twins,
The Martian,
Nas,
Panda Bear,
Easy Going,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lalann,
Morten Harket,
The Moleskins,
Idris Muhammad,
The Cowsills,
Frankie Knuckles,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Deadbeat,
Quantec,
The Raincoats,
Cymande,
Stereo Dub,
Cheater Slicks,
Judy Mowatt,
Hashim,
Los Fastidios,
Erykah Badu,
The Barracudas,
JFA,
Davy DMX,
Faust,
Amon Düül,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Evens,
Grauzone,
John Cale,
X-101,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lee Hazlewood,
Moby Grape,
Groovy Waters,
Niagra,
The Seeds,
Desert Stars,
The Standells,
Youth Brigade,
Radiopuhelimet,
Oblivians,
Ice-T,
The Zeros,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Black Moon,
Byron Stingily,
Prince Buster,
Chris Corsano,
Bobby Sherman,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
New Order,
the Association,
Moebius,
Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy.
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.