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 Guinea and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Anakelly to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Duran Duran,
Erasure,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Pop Group,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gabor Szabo,
Warsaw,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Skatalites,
Yazoo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tears for Fears,
Fatback Band,
the Normal,
Wasted Youth,
Janne Schatter,
The Gap Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Trumans Water,
Black Pus,
The Human League,
Magazine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kerri Chandler,
Ultra Naté,
Boredoms,
Marvin Gaye,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lucky Dragons,
Sex Pistols,
Gang Starr,
Davy DMX,
Interpol,
Barrington Levy,
Accadde A,
Pet Shop Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rotary Connection,
Junior Murvin,
U.S. Maple,
John Foxx,
Average White Band,
Chris Corsano,
10cc,
The Seeds,
AZ,
Jandek,
The Mummies,
Michelle Simonal,
Don Cherry,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ronan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quando Quango,
Neu!,
Dennis Brown,
Monolake,
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.