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 Algeria and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the electroclash 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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Schoolly D,
The Happenings,
Mad Mike,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Duran Duran,
Alphaville,
Hardrive,
Sonic Youth,
Fad Gadget,
Barry Ungar,
Lakeside,
Wolf Eyes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Frankie Knuckles,
Franke,
Jeru the Damaja,
Brick,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Raincoats,
Oneida,
Bobby Byrd,
Rapeman,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fat Boys,
The Busters,
The Velvet Underground,
John Lydon,
Liliput,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Evens,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Brand Nubian,
Patti Smith,
Ponytail,
Negative Approach,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Curtis Mayfield,
Drexciya,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Zeros,
Basic Channel,
The Tremeloes,
Fatback Band,
The Stooges,
Mandrill,
Maurizio,
Boz Scaggs,
Circle Jerks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Groovy Waters,
Oblivians,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rakim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Judy Mowatt,
Unrelated Segments,
Gregory Isaacs,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.