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 Colombia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 snare 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 Talk Talk to the rock 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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Lower 48,
Nico,
The Zeros,
The Buckinghams,
Fat Boys,
John Foxx,
Black Moon,
Los Fastidios,
cv313,
Jeff Mills,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Germs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Byron Stingily,
the Slits,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed,
The Litter,
Thompson Twins,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kas Product,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alton Ellis,
Mary Jane Girls,
Massinfluence,
David Axelrod,
Gang Green,
Juan Atkins,
Sam Rivers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DJ Style,
Lakeside,
Danielle Patucci,
Grauzone,
kango's stein massive,
The Toasters,
The Gap Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Boz Scaggs,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Depeche Mode,
Fluxion,
The Five Americans,
The Fall,
John Cale,
Erykah Badu,
Tom Boy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sixth Finger,
The Knickerbockers,
Ultra Naté,
Guru Guru,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Technova,
10cc,
The American Breed,
Jandek,
Rufus Thomas,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tomorrow,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.