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 Austria and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Youth Brigade to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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?
Kaleidoscope,
Crash Course in Science,
Rekid,
Roy Ayers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gun Club,
The Fugs,
Yazoo,
Avey Tare,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
June Days,
Spoonie Gee,
Lower 48,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gap Band,
Jacob Miller,
Depeche Mode,
Lou Christie,
Schoolly D,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hoover,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Minor Threat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Peter & Gordon,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dark Day,
The Residents,
Absolute Body Control,
The Monks,
Jeff Lynne,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amon Düül II,
Mr. Review,
Eve St. Jones,
Marshall Jefferson,
Slick Rick,
Vladislav Delay,
Newcleus,
Mission of Burma,
DJ Sneak,
The Black Dice,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Piero Umiliani,
The Beau Brummels,
Gang of Four,
Minnie Riperton,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joy Division,
the Germs,
Max Romeo,
Arcadia,
Archie Shepp,
Roger Hodgson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Arab on Radar,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Fuzztones,
Camouflage,
the Bar-Kays,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.