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 Moldova and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Gang of Four to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kenny Larkin,
Spoonie Gee,
Godley & Creme,
Sonic Youth,
Television Personalities,
The Slits,
Hardrive,
Pole,
Surgeon,
Mars,
Traffic Nightmare,
Charles Mingus,
MC5,
Grey Daturas,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mandrill,
Marine Girls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pharoah Sanders,
Funky Four + One,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Juan Atkins,
Donny Hathaway,
Hashim,
Drexciya,
The Names,
Kayak,
Simply Red,
Japan,
Niagra,
Von Mondo,
The Angels of Light,
Brothers Johnson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Deakin,
Lebanon Hanover,
Alison Limerick,
Silicon Teens,
The Fall,
Crooked Eye,
Jacques Brel,
The Searchers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Alphaville,
Jacob Miller,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Sound,
Ultra Naté,
Fatback Band,
Suburban Knight,
Albert Ayler,
Toni Rubio,
Bobby Sherman,
Stiv Bators,
10cc,
The Offenders,
Davy DMX,
Joensuu 1685,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.