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 Niger and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lille.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Traffic Nightmare to the electroclash 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 The Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville 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 an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Spandau Ballet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ken Boothe,
the Germs,
Brand Nubian,
Ten City,
The Invisible,
The Young Rascals,
Agitation Free,
Angry Samoans,
Eve St. Jones,
Groovy Waters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Masters at Work,
The American Breed,
Rufus Thomas,
Marcia Griffiths,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dual Sessions,
Peter and Kerry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Spoonie Gee,
Moss Icon,
Main Source,
Max Romeo,
Darondo,
Fear,
Organ,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boogie Down Productions,
Von Mondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Erasure,
Sam Rivers,
Joe Finger,
DNA,
Scrapy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Skatalites,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Toni Rubio,
Lou Reed,
Gang Gang Dance,
Johnny Osbourne,
Chris & Cosey,
Au Pairs,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
10cc,
Joensuu 1685,
Marshall Jefferson,
Section 25,
T.S.O.L.,
Sonny Sharrock,
Brass Construction,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Busters,
The Associates,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Parry Music,
Judy Mowatt,
Nils Olav,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.