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 France and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 This Heat to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Joy Division,
Make Up,
PIL,
Steve Hackett,
Cecil Taylor,
David McCallum,
Joe Finger,
Black Sheep,
Boz Scaggs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hoover,
Dual Sessions,
Brothers Johnson,
Soft Cell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Surgeon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Cramps,
Charles Mingus,
Bobby Womack,
Swans,
Chris Corsano,
Don Cherry,
Kool Moe Dee,
Harry Pussy,
Theoretical Girls,
The Toasters,
Porter Ricks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Chrome,
Negative Approach,
Todd Terry,
Section 25,
Gang Green,
X-Ray Spex,
Kaleidoscope,
Lightning Bolt,
Ornette Coleman,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Raincoats,
Tropical Tobacco,
This Heat,
Oblivians,
Marmalade,
Barbara Tucker,
R.M.O.,
Camberwell Now,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Country Teasers,
John Foxx,
Hashim,
Pere Ubu,
Pantytec,
Flash Fearless,
Brass Construction,
June Days,
The Zeros,
Saccharine Trust,
Lower 48,
Michelle Simonal,
Roxette,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.