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 Guatemala and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Howard Jones to the crunk 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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Adolescents,
Silicon Teens,
Yusef Lateef,
The Golliwogs,
Ohio Players,
Donald Byrd,
Ten City,
Hardrive,
Don Cherry,
The Litter,
This Heat,
Roy Ayers,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Slackers,
Little Man,
The Skatalites,
Peter & Gordon,
Buzzcocks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bobby Byrd,
Judy Mowatt,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pantytec,
The Pretty Things,
Sexual Harrassment,
Average White Band,
Jeff Mills,
Rekid,
New Order,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ronan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Flamin' Groovies,
Suburban Knight,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Soft Machine,
Pharoah Sanders,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dual Sessions,
Fluxion,
Motorama,
Second Layer,
Janne Schatter,
Lower 48,
John Coltrane,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skaos,
Parry Music,
Soulsonic Force,
Slave,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Circle Jerks,
Morten Harket,
The Gun Club,
Negative Approach,
Gang Starr,
Pantaleimon,
Joyce Sims,
X-102,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.