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 Sri Lanka and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Eli Mardock to the grunge 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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Minutemen,
Junior Murvin,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mars,
The Techniques,
Parry Music,
Index,
Michelle Simonal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Symarip,
LL Cool J,
Audionom,
Infiniti,
Dual Sessions,
Roxy Music,
The Angels of Light,
Tropical Tobacco,
Peter and Kerry,
Loose Ends,
Ponytail,
Cameo,
Mary Jane Girls,
Los Fastidios,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ronnie Foster,
Section 25,
Jacob Miller,
Nick Fraelich,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Country Joe & The Fish,
New Age Steppers,
Marine Girls,
Con Funk Shun,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
U.S. Maple,
Magma,
Jeff Mills,
Japan,
Sixth Finger,
Trumans Water,
The Invisible,
Wasted Youth,
cv313,
JFA,
A Certain Ratio,
Piero Umiliani,
Accadde A,
Joe Finger,
Bob Dylan,
Gong,
Joyce Sims,
Masters at Work,
Hot Snakes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crash Course in Science,
Ralphi Rosario,
Chris Corsano,
Joensuu 1685,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.