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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Reagan Youth 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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
MDC,
Dead Boys,
Section 25,
Freddie Wadling,
OOIOO,
Television,
Drexciya,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Deakin,
Boz Scaggs,
Kaleidoscope,
The Slackers,
Maleditus Sound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boredoms,
Gang of Four,
The Human League,
Camberwell Now,
The Seeds,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Black Bananas,
Khruangbin,
Nico,
Chris & Cosey,
Godley & Creme,
The Techniques,
Y Pants,
Idris Muhammad,
Boogie Down Productions,
Matthew Halsall,
The Standells,
Soft Cell,
Eric B and Rakim,
Scratch Acid,
Ice-T,
Rapeman,
Pole,
China Crisis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sun City Girls,
Absolute Body Control,
Scott Walker,
The New Christs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kayak,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Don Cherry,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nas,
Neu!,
Sixth Finger,
Harry Pussy,
The Raincoats,
The Leaves,
Gong,
Kevin Saunderson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
T. Rex,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.