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 Gambia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes 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 The Durutti Column to the electroclash 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 Eve St. Jones. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Severed Heads,
Aswad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
China Crisis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ice-T,
The Moleskins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Essential Logic,
CMW,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dorothy Ashby,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ralphi Rosario,
Minny Pops,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
JFA,
Can,
T. Rex,
Godley & Creme,
Lindisfarne,
Panda Bear,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gabor Szabo,
Jerry's Kids,
Prince Buster,
AZ,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jawbox,
Kaleidoscope,
The Martian,
KRS-One,
Eli Mardock,
This Heat,
Bluetip,
Archie Shepp,
Popol Vuh,
Aural Exciters,
Moebius,
Supertramp,
Carl Craig,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Whodini,
the Sonics,
The Golliwogs,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Dead C,
Hardrive,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Trojans,
Lou Reed,
Tubeway Army,
The Slits,
UT,
Marmalade,
Liliput,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
World's Most,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.