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 Kiribati and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Guru Guru to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Robert Hood,
Tres Demented,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Arab on Radar,
Rotary Connection,
Simply Red,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Junior Murvin,
Quantec,
Ornette Coleman,
Girls At Our Best!,
Letta Mbulu,
Warren Ellis,
Ultimate Spinach,
The J.B.'s,
Essential Logic,
Josef K,
The Associates,
Freddie Wadling,
48th St. Collective,
K-Klass,
Peter and Kerry,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kaleidoscope,
Black Sheep,
Throbbing Gristle,
Neu!,
Cybotron,
Kurtis Blow,
MC5,
Aaron Thompson,
Roy Ayers,
The Misunderstood,
Swell Maps,
Bobby Sherman,
Jeff Lynne,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ultravox,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fall,
The Selecter,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sparks,
Sun Ra,
Arcadia,
Sällskapet,
Massinfluence,
John Lydon,
Pulsallama,
Rosa Yemen,
Roxette,
Little Man,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
DJ Style,
Bush Tetras,
Sandy B,
Rhythm & Sound,
Chris & Cosey,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.