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 Slovakia and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Groovy Waters to the electroclash 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Enemy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Junior Murvin,
Saccharine Trust,
Nils Olav,
MC5,
Cal Tjader,
the Slits,
Swell Maps,
Kool Moe Dee,
Hasil Adkins,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eric Copeland,
The Last Poets,
Second Layer,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Anthony Braxton,
Pantaleimon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jacob Miller,
Infiniti,
Pole,
Young Marble Giants,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eurythmics,
Bizarre Inc.,
Schoolly D,
Carl Craig,
The Cure,
The Gories,
The Monks,
the Normal,
Faraquet,
The Five Americans,
Subhumans,
Theoretical Girls,
Grauzone,
John Holt,
Stetsasonic,
The Invisible,
Oneida,
Kaleidoscope,
Amon Düül II,
Technova,
Livin' Joy,
Althea and Donna,
Howard Jones,
Japan,
Eden Ahbez,
Blossom Toes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marvin Gaye,
Kenny Larkin,
Flash Fearless,
Laurel Aitken,
The Happenings,
Magma,
Ultravox,
KRS-One,
Lindisfarne,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.