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 Norway and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 rhodes 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 Trumans Water to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Offenders. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
The Mummies,
Warren Ellis,
Nirvana,
a-ha,
Bobby Byrd,
Rites of Spring,
Ludus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jacob Miller,
New York Dolls,
Malaria!,
The Slackers,
Cybotron,
Liliput,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
B.T. Express,
Aaron Thompson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Heaven 17,
Grandmaster Flash,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Matthew Halsall,
World's Most,
Gabor Szabo,
The Cowsills,
Tom Boy,
Skriet,
Altered Images,
Subhumans,
Fatback Band,
Jacques Brel,
Tropical Tobacco,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Names,
Porter Ricks,
Dawn Penn,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
KRS-One,
The Searchers,
Main Source,
Flash Fearless,
Soul II Soul,
Todd Terry,
the Soft Cell,
Inner City,
X-101,
Rosa Yemen,
Spandau Ballet,
D'Angelo,
The Busters,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Monolake,
Leonard Cohen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Silicon Teens,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Leaves,
Nation of Ulysses,
Spoonie Gee,
Matthew Bourne,
Grey Daturas,
Derrick Morgan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.