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 Cuba and from Accra.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Last Poets to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson 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 chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Joyce Sims,
Crash Course in Science,
The Monochrome Set,
Jeru the Damaja,
Mark Hollis,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Techniques,
Wire,
Pet Shop Boys,
Buzzcocks,
Half Japanese,
Outsiders,
Peter & Gordon,
Gang Starr,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fall,
Eric Copeland,
Jawbox,
Malaria!,
The Vogues,
Matthew Bourne,
Banda Bassotti,
Minnie Riperton,
Lakeside,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Average White Band,
The Residents,
Dawn Penn,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Seeds,
Harpers Bizarre,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Associates,
Hardrive,
Ludus,
Inner City,
Gichy Dan,
Aural Exciters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Neon Judgement,
Quantec,
One Last Wish,
La Düsseldorf,
Bush Tetras,
Yaz,
Ultra Naté,
The Gories,
Sonny Sharrock,
Surgeon,
Sandy B,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bronski Beat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Alison Limerick,
Neu!,
Lee Hazlewood,
Joe Smooth,
Animal Collective,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.