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 Australia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 mellotron 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 X-102 to the funk 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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Searchers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
New Order,
The Birthday Party,
The Detroit Cobras,
Crispy Ambulance,
David Axelrod,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rod Modell,
Whodini,
Parry Music,
D'Angelo,
Mars,
Scratch Acid,
The Red Krayola,
Audionom,
Todd Rundgren,
Joey Negro,
The American Breed,
Sonic Youth,
Buzzcocks,
Ituana,
KRS-One,
China Crisis,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Chris Corsano,
Amon Düül II,
The Young Rascals,
Surgeon,
Letta Mbulu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Harmonia,
Flipper,
Flash Fearless,
Black Flag,
Royal Trux,
The Moody Blues,
Interpol,
Niagra,
The Sonics,
Alice Coltrane,
DNA,
Brand Nubian,
PIL,
The Litter,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wally Richardson,
The Neon Judgement,
Minor Threat,
The Golliwogs,
Gastr Del Sol,
Harry Pussy,
Johnny Clarke,
The Cramps,
The Slackers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Outsiders,
Lower 48,
OOIOO,
Sarah Menescal,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.