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 Turkey and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All The American Breed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Country Teasers,
Pagans,
Excepter,
Los Fastidios,
The Busters,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
48th St. Collective,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
DJ Sneak,
DNA,
The Real Kids,
Susan Cadogan,
Charles Mingus,
The Mummies,
The Names,
The Associates,
Althea and Donna,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Panda Bear,
Todd Terry,
Ronan,
Soft Machine,
Eurythmics,
Ultravox,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pantytec,
Animal Collective,
Gang Green,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Guru Guru,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Brothers Johnson,
Little Man,
Tubeway Army,
Jimmy McGriff,
In Retrospect,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Buckinghams,
June of 44,
Funkadelic,
Heaven 17,
Mad Mike,
Icehouse,
Cameo,
Sandy B,
The Pretty Things,
The Birthday Party,
Dennis Brown,
Colin Newman,
Sarah Menescal,
Cymande,
Maleditus Sound,
Neu!,
Kenny Larkin,
Roxette,
Zero Boys,
Au Pairs,
Marine Girls,
Half Japanese,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.