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 Belarus and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Donald Byrd to the rap 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
8 Eyed Spy,
Moebius,
Brick,
New Order,
Hardrive,
Jeff Mills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scrapy,
The Smiths,
John Holt,
CMW,
Nico,
The Dave Clark Five,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Clear Light,
Scott Walker,
Brand Nubian,
The Fall,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scratch Acid,
Soul II Soul,
Minnie Riperton,
Ultravox,
A Certain Ratio,
Sonic Youth,
Flipper,
Accadde A,
June of 44,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Deepchord,
Big Daddy Kane,
Technova,
The Happenings,
Susan Cadogan,
Mad Mike,
Crooked Eye,
The Raincoats,
The Remains,
Heaven 17,
Bill Wells,
The Cure,
Ornette Coleman,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pierre Henry,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eddi Front,
The Knickerbockers,
Yazoo,
LL Cool J,
The Saints,
Sällskapet,
Unwound,
Neu!,
Crash Course in Science,
K-Klass,
Livin' Joy,
Quantec,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.