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 Belize and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Marine Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Erykah Badu,
Bush Tetras,
Bootsy Collins,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Birthday Party,
Glenn Branca,
Minor Threat,
New Order,
Technova,
Minny Pops,
Alice Coltrane,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Vainqueur,
The Last Poets,
Shoche,
Metal Thangz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Magazine,
X-102,
Supertramp,
Tim Buckley,
U.S. Maple,
Theoretical Girls,
Peter and Kerry,
Thompson Twins,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pierre Henry,
Cameo,
The Slits,
Outsiders,
Dual Sessions,
Toni Rubio,
Dawn Penn,
UT,
The Durutti Column,
Tears for Fears,
Joyce Sims,
Unwound,
B.T. Express,
Alphaville,
PIL,
The Saints,
EPMD,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fire Engines,
Eli Mardock,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Knickerbockers,
Gang of Four,
Infiniti,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Fall,
Terrestrial Tones,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bauhaus,
Blake Baxter,
The Blackbyrds,
Eurythmics,
Tommy Roe,
Erasure,
The Fortunes,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.