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 Samoa and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 marimba 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 Sexual Harrassment to the punk 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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Sonny Sharrock,
Babytalk,
Pierre Henry,
Simply Red,
Kenny Larkin,
Sarah Menescal,
MC5,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marmalade,
Soft Machine,
Slick Rick,
Fad Gadget,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lindisfarne,
Kayak,
Rod Modell,
Roxette,
the Human League,
The Residents,
Quando Quango,
Byron Stingily,
Iggy Pop,
The Modern Lovers,
Robert Wyatt,
Amon Düül,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bronski Beat,
The Dirtbombs,
Franke,
Derrick Morgan,
KRS-One,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gong,
David Axelrod,
The Young Rascals,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
E-Dancer,
Morten Harket,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Supertramp,
Ornette Coleman,
The Searchers,
Marine Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
H. Thieme,
Dawn Penn,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
D'Angelo,
Ultra Naté,
Bad Manners,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Little Man,
The Standells,
Buzzcocks,
Camouflage,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.