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 Germany and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Tres Demented to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June of 44 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Suburban Knight,
Rhythm & Sound,
Yazoo,
Charles Mingus,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eurythmics,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kool Moe Dee,
In Retrospect,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Motions,
The Birthday Party,
Boz Scaggs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sugar Minott,
Ronan,
Average White Band,
Kurtis Blow,
PIL,
CMW,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Von Mondo,
The Mummies,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pharoah Sanders,
Matthew Bourne,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Pop Group,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Pretty Things,
Curtis Mayfield,
Howard Jones,
Bad Manners,
Hot Snakes,
U.S. Maple,
Depeche Mode,
The Searchers,
Country Teasers,
Sam Rivers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Associates,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grey Daturas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Skaos,
Maurizio,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Vladislav Delay,
Saccharine Trust,
Deadbeat,
Infiniti,
Lou Reed,
Aswad,
The Beau Brummels,
Joy Division,
Dawn Penn,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.