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 Ivory Coast and from Mumbai.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Brick to the jazz 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Scan 7,
Grey Daturas,
John Cale,
Banda Bassotti,
Procol Harum,
Warren Ellis,
Nirvana,
Pylon,
Unrelated Segments,
Hasil Adkins,
The Black Dice,
Camberwell Now,
Ultra Naté,
U.S. Maple,
Cheater Slicks,
CMW,
Sonic Youth,
Joy Division,
Funky Four + One,
The Fortunes,
The Last Poets,
Peter & Gordon,
Thee Headcoats,
Judy Mowatt,
Ohio Players,
Siglo XX,
Sexual Harrassment,
Johnny Clarke,
Ornette Coleman,
Quadrant,
The Remains,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Smog,
Brothers Johnson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funkadelic,
The Doobie Brothers,
Joe Smooth,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cal Tjader,
Buzzcocks,
Spoonie Gee,
Crash Course in Science,
Essential Logic,
Rufus Thomas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ludus,
Kool Moe Dee,
Davy DMX,
Wasted Youth,
Los Fastidios,
The Motions,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Hood,
Organ,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.