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 Egypt and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hashim to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The J.B.'s record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Kas Product,
The Five Americans,
Scrapy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Angels of Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Slackers,
E-Dancer,
Bill Near,
Barbara Tucker,
OOIOO,
Hashim,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Curtis Mayfield,
CMW,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Peter & Gordon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Robert Görl,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jeff Mills,
DJ Style,
Television,
Quantec,
Tubeway Army,
David Axelrod,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Godley & Creme,
R.M.O.,
Television Personalities,
Brass Construction,
Public Image Ltd.,
Glambeats Corp.,
Erykah Badu,
The Invisible,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
John Coltrane,
Marine Girls,
Lower 48,
The Count Five,
Underground Resistance,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Das Ding,
Neil Young,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Audionom,
Little Man,
James White and The Blacks,
Easy Going,
Erasure,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Roxy Music,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lindisfarne,
Desert Stars,
Suburban Knight,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.