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 Guinea and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 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 The Monochrome Set to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Los Fastidios,
Second Layer,
Flash Fearless,
Neil Young,
8 Eyed Spy,
CMW,
The Velvet Underground,
Lower 48,
The Index,
The Pretty Things,
Toni Rubio,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Colin Newman,
Suicide,
The Move,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Intrusion,
The Durutti Column,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Gap Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Cramps,
Crime,
The Leaves,
Inner City,
The Toasters,
Flamin' Groovies,
UT,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Cure,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
DJ Sneak,
AZ,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Unwound,
Fat Boys,
Hashim,
Newcleus,
La Düsseldorf,
Echospace,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mo-Dettes,
Das Ding,
Wasted Youth,
June Days,
The Vogues,
Fear,
Agitation Free,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Von Mondo,
The Gories,
Ponytail,
Scratch Acid,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pole,
The Dead C,
KRS-One,
The Remains,
Albert Ayler,
Spandau Ballet,
Minor Threat,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.