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 Kyrgyzstan and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mexico City.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kurtis Blow to the rock 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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kaleidoscope,
Duran Duran,
Kenny Larkin,
Main Source,
Ponytail,
Mr. Review,
Porter Ricks,
Lungfish,
Marcia Griffiths,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Inner City,
Cecil Taylor,
The Gun Club,
the Germs,
Prince Buster,
Drexciya,
Smog,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Loose Ends,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Babytalk,
Suburban Knight,
Siglo XX,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Subhumans,
Liliput,
Scrapy,
The Fuzztones,
Thompson Twins,
Gang Gang Dance,
James White and The Blacks,
Fugazi,
Radiopuhelimet,
Blake Baxter,
Nils Olav,
Theoretical Girls,
Bobby Sherman,
The Leaves,
Echospace,
DJ Sneak,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Neu!,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rotary Connection,
OOIOO,
Dual Sessions,
Soul Sonic Force,
China Crisis,
New York Dolls,
Jeff Lynne,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kurtis Blow,
The United States of America,
Tres Demented,
Agitation Free,
Television,
Skriet,
Index,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.