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 Ecuador and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 arpeggiator 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 Newcleus to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jandek,
Scrapy,
Underground Resistance,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Happenings,
Rekid,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sugar Minott,
Hashim,
The Gories,
The Standells,
Godley & Creme,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Letta Mbulu,
The Slits,
Sexual Harrassment,
Fad Gadget,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Stooges,
Quantec,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lalann,
Jesper Dahlback,
Second Layer,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sound Behaviour,
Darondo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Brand Nubian,
Alice Coltrane,
Suburban Knight,
Crooked Eye,
The Selecter,
Nirvana,
Johnny Clarke,
Dennis Brown,
Tres Demented,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lakeside,
the Slits,
Stereo Dub,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fall,
Bad Manners,
Black Bananas,
Motorama,
Pantytec,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Unwound,
Trumans Water,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.