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 Gabon and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Idris Muhammad to the dance 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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Masters at Work,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Alice Coltrane,
EPMD,
New York Dolls,
Junior Murvin,
Wire,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
These Immortal Souls,
Accadde A,
The Zeros,
Maurizio,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Crime,
Nas,
Young Marble Giants,
Archie Shepp,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Mills,
Gong,
Scan 7,
Hashim,
Eric Dolphy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Neil Young,
Derrick May,
The Mojo Men,
Roy Ayers,
Sex Pistols,
The Fall,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Starr,
Kayak,
the Slits,
Country Teasers,
Dual Sessions,
The Cure,
Bang On A Can,
Bobby Sherman,
The Gap Band,
Robert Görl,
The United States of America,
Visage,
Eric Copeland,
Lyres,
Jerry's Kids,
Soul II Soul,
China Crisis,
Soul Sonic Force,
Monks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Talk Talk,
Chrome,
Supertramp,
Drexciya,
Rufus Thomas,
Dave Gahan,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.