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 Singapore and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 chamberlin 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 Ronnie Foster to the techno 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 The Mummies. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Theoretical Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Black Flag,
Gang Starr,
Basic Channel,
Youth Brigade,
Ohio Players,
Livin' Joy,
Babytalk,
Kerri Chandler,
The Birthday Party,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sarah Menescal,
ABBA,
The Buckinghams,
Monks,
Ossler,
Jawbox,
Boz Scaggs,
Masters at Work,
Bang On A Can,
The Trojans,
Arcadia,
The Fuzztones,
June Days,
Ronan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ten City,
F. McDonald,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
DJ Sneak,
Warren Ellis,
Archie Shepp,
Tropical Tobacco,
Simply Red,
Blancmange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erykah Badu,
Metal Thangz,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Foxx,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
David McCallum,
The Pretty Things,
The New Christs,
T.S.O.L.,
Scrapy,
Marmalade,
Joensuu 1685,
The Black Dice,
Cluster,
The Cramps,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Andrew Hill,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.