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 Kingdom and from Portland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Duran Duran to the rock 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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
The Cramps,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Techniques,
Dual Sessions,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kurtis Blow,
The United States of America,
Maleditus Sound,
Derrick Morgan,
Banda Bassotti,
Essential Logic,
Mars,
Radio Birdman,
Lalo Schifrin,
Barrington Levy,
Derrick May,
Cal Tjader,
Theoretical Girls,
Von Mondo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Fugs,
Outsiders,
Pole,
Ten City,
Agitation Free,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ronnie Foster,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Aaron Thompson,
Hashim,
Youth Brigade,
Jerry's Kids,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Donny Hathaway,
Sam Rivers,
Iggy Pop,
ABC,
The Move,
Lindisfarne,
Dorothy Ashby,
Public Enemy,
Quadrant,
the Association,
The Smiths,
In Retrospect,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Sonics,
The Stooges,
The Buckinghams,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Symarip,
The New Christs,
Lower 48,
John Foxx,
The Angels of Light,
Cecil Taylor,
Angry Samoans,
The Gladiators,
Isaac Hayes,
Reagan Youth,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.