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 Indonesia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Joe Finger to the grime 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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Piero Umiliani,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Girls At Our Best!,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Bar-Kays,
Zapp,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rotary Connection,
The Modern Lovers,
Black Pus,
Talk Talk,
Joe Finger,
The Buckinghams,
Essential Logic,
D'Angelo,
The Divine Comedy,
Minor Threat,
The J.B.'s,
Echospace,
Lebanon Hanover,
Janne Schatter,
A Certain Ratio,
Lungfish,
The Busters,
June Days,
The Monks,
Blancmange,
Mars,
Marine Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
L. Decosne,
Electric Prunes,
Bush Tetras,
Sixth Finger,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Letta Mbulu,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
One Last Wish,
Wolf Eyes,
KRS-One,
ABBA,
Angry Samoans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Cymande,
The Trojans,
X-102,
Soul Sonic Force,
Boredoms,
Dorothy Ashby,
Radio Birdman,
Shuggie Otis,
Tommy Roe,
Lalo Schifrin,
Reuben Wilson,
Country Teasers,
The Fortunes,
Fatback Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.