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 Afghanistan and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 The Evens 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Von Mondo,
Johnny Clarke,
Skaos,
Reuben Wilson,
Dave Gahan,
Al Stewart,
Y Pants,
Massinfluence,
Marcia Griffiths,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Howard Jones,
Man Parrish,
The Moleskins,
Hardrive,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Parry Music,
Kayak,
The Star Department,
Masters at Work,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cluster,
Robert Wyatt,
DJ Style,
Curtis Mayfield,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Urselle,
the Association,
Ronnie Foster,
KRS-One,
Zero Boys,
Smog,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Smoke,
Average White Band,
Quando Quango,
Soul II Soul,
Arthur Verocai,
The Barracudas,
The Litter,
Moebius,
Grauzone,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jandek,
Rotary Connection,
Glenn Branca,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Human League,
Nas,
The Beau Brummels,
John Cale,
The Gap Band,
48th St. Collective,
Marine Girls,
Fela Kuti,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Model 500,
The Victims,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kas Product,
The Fall,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.