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 Kazakhstan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
The Gories,
Essential Logic,
EPMD,
The Blackbyrds,
Agitation Free,
Barclay James Harvest,
Wally Richardson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Yusef Lateef,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marcia Griffiths,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Schoolly D,
Bootsy Collins,
Godley & Creme,
Sonic Youth,
Jacques Brel,
The Fire Engines,
Pole,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Angels of Light,
Crooked Eye,
Bronski Beat,
Zero Boys,
Archie Shepp,
Reuben Wilson,
Livin' Joy,
The Busters,
Babytalk,
The Index,
Hot Snakes,
Lebanon Hanover,
World's Most,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Aloha Tigers,
Gichy Dan,
cv313,
Eric Dolphy,
June Days,
Goldenarms,
Fatback Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Man Parrish,
Matthew Halsall,
Dual Sessions,
Rites of Spring,
The New Christs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Circle Jerks,
The Walker Brothers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Monolake,
John Holt,
Visage,
Faraquet,
Wolf Eyes,
Aswad,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gong, Gong, Gong, Gong.
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.