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 Montenegro and from Portland.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Ponytail to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Jimmy McGriff,
Schoolly D,
Unrelated Segments,
Joy Division,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dual Sessions,
The Human League,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Barracudas,
Kool Moe Dee,
Harmonia,
Hardrive,
Television,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nils Olav,
Pere Ubu,
Absolute Body Control,
Nas,
New Order,
World's Most,
Howard Jones,
Jeff Lynne,
Hasil Adkins,
Gong,
Laurel Aitken,
Fluxion,
Sarah Menescal,
Skarface,
Bang On A Can,
Eric Dolphy,
Toni Rubio,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Reuben Wilson,
The Walker Brothers,
Wings,
The Invisible,
B.T. Express,
Radio Birdman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rhythm & Sound,
Massinfluence,
Black Sheep,
Drexciya,
Essential Logic,
Stetsasonic,
The Gories,
Flipper,
Motorama,
Sam Rivers,
The Stooges,
The Gap Band,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Throbbing Gristle,
Desert Stars,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Severed Heads,
The Saints,
Scrapy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings.
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.