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 Paraguay and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rekid to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Holt 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 a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
The Dave Clark Five,
Model 500,
Rotary Connection,
In Retrospect,
The Modern Lovers,
Banda Bassotti,
Young Marble Giants,
Sarah Menescal,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bobby Byrd,
Drexciya,
Carl Craig,
Jacques Brel,
Cluster,
The Slackers,
Metal Thangz,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nick Fraelich,
Hot Snakes,
Cecil Taylor,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
X-101,
The Neon Judgement,
Josef K,
Bill Wells,
Sandy B,
Mo-Dettes,
Dawn Penn,
Todd Terry,
Joensuu 1685,
Lakeside,
Negative Approach,
Marc Almond,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Leonard Cohen,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Happenings,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fall,
Siglo XX,
Anthony Braxton,
Dave Gahan,
Skarface,
Skriet,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Chrome,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Godley & Creme,
Sex Pistols,
The American Breed,
Mars,
Wire,
Flamin' Groovies,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
KRS-One,
Ralphi Rosario,
Electric Prunes,
Gong,
Harry Pussy,
Saccharine Trust,
The Evens,
Boogie Down Productions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.