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 Mexico City.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 Sonny Sharrock to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
T. Rex,
Public Image Ltd.,
Das Ding,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Surgeon,
Pantytec,
Kool Moe Dee,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Mr. Review,
The Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
Pierre Henry,
Young Marble Giants,
New York Dolls,
AZ,
Roxy Music,
Kerrie Biddell,
Patti Smith,
Curtis Mayfield,
Cameo,
Bill Wells,
Isaac Hayes,
Aswad,
Altered Images,
The Buckinghams,
Sugar Minott,
The Cowsills,
Ultimate Spinach,
Tim Buckley,
Groovy Waters,
Fluxion,
Junior Murvin,
Chris & Cosey,
Deepchord,
Harmonia,
Tommy Roe,
Funky Four + One,
E-Dancer,
Soul Sonic Force,
John Cale,
The Star Department,
Peter & Gordon,
Skriet,
Alphaville,
The Blackbyrds,
Procol Harum,
Kerri Chandler,
Gong,
Josef K,
The Shadows of Knight,
Agitation Free,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crispian St. Peters,
Outsiders,
Reuben Wilson,
Janne Schatter,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Q and Not U,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.