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 Liechtenstein and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Easy Going,
Girls At Our Best!,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nas,
The Vogues,
Basic Channel,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
FM Einheit,
CMW,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Peter & Gordon,
The Young Rascals,
John Lydon,
Jeff Mills,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Juan Atkins,
Newcleus,
The Count Five,
The Wake,
Gregory Isaacs,
June of 44,
Hardrive,
The Sonics,
EPMD,
Connie Case,
Half Japanese,
Arab on Radar,
Rekid,
Shuggie Otis,
Lou Reed,
Kenny Larkin,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mission of Burma,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scott Walker,
Scratch Acid,
Wolf Eyes,
David McCallum,
Faraquet,
Drexciya,
Flipper,
Jeff Lynne,
Colin Newman,
Leonard Cohen,
Section 25,
The Gories,
Avey Tare,
Fatback Band,
Lyres,
Duran Duran,
Glambeats Corp.,
Guru Guru,
F. McDonald,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ice-T,
E-Dancer,
Soft Cell,
Faust,
Outsiders,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.