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 Sudan and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 L. Decosne to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
kango's stein massive,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Agitation Free,
a-ha,
Sparks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wings,
Crash Course in Science,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sun City Girls,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Crooked Eye,
Dual Sessions,
Sam Rivers,
B.T. Express,
Au Pairs,
Laurel Aitken,
Sugar Minott,
The Golliwogs,
Gang of Four,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cymande,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jacob Miller,
Max Romeo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tropical Tobacco,
Royal Trux,
Goldenarms,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Cure,
The Searchers,
Zero Boys,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
China Crisis,
Juan Atkins,
Man Eating Sloth,
Danielle Patucci,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Simply Red,
Shuggie Otis,
Malaria!,
Kenny Larkin,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Amon Düül,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Derrick Morgan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nirvana,
Gang Green,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rakim,
Heaven 17,
Scion,
F. McDonald,
David Bowie,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.