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 Grenada and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the grunge 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pierre Henry,
E-Dancer,
Maleditus Sound,
Matthew Halsall,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Audionom,
Cal Tjader,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Procol Harum,
Depeche Mode,
Crooked Eye,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Harry Pussy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Reuben Wilson,
Fear,
MC5,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Marmalade,
Ronnie Foster,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bootsy Collins,
Letta Mbulu,
Adolescents,
The Sound,
Tubeway Army,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Laurel Aitken,
Minor Threat,
Roy Ayers,
L. Decosne,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eve St. Jones,
Curtis Mayfield,
John Coltrane,
Whodini,
Andrew Hill,
Smog,
Television,
The Dave Clark Five,
Skaos,
Robert Wyatt,
The Skatalites,
Albert Ayler,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Severed Heads,
Boz Scaggs,
The Monochrome Set,
Yellowson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Al Stewart,
Desert Stars,
Lakeside,
The Residents,
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Erykah Badu,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sandy B,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.