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 United States and from Halifax.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Robert Görl to the funk 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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Spoonie Gee,
Pere Ubu,
Marshall Jefferson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Suburban Knight,
Junior Murvin,
Matthew Halsall,
Michelle Simonal,
Monks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kenny Larkin,
Matthew Bourne,
Patti Smith,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Smog,
Lou Christie,
Kerrie Biddell,
Terry Callier,
Chris Corsano,
Sällskapet,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-101,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Zeros,
Neil Young,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Black Pus,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scientists,
Gang Starr,
Lakeside,
Kayak,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sarah Menescal,
Darondo,
Masters at Work,
The Gories,
Piero Umiliani,
Average White Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tommy Roe,
Con Funk Shun,
Joy Division,
Cymande,
The Doobie Brothers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
David Bowie,
Joe Finger,
Altered Images,
Fat Boys,
Colin Newman,
Judy Mowatt,
Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.