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 Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Man Parrish to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Lebanon Hanover,
Leonard Cohen,
Lalann,
Rosa Yemen,
Dark Day,
Sam Rivers,
The Mojo Men,
The Associates,
Marc Almond,
The Gladiators,
Joy Division,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Boredoms,
In Retrospect,
Underground Resistance,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Yusef Lateef,
China Crisis,
The Selecter,
Heaven 17,
The Doors,
Inner City,
Erasure,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Smiths,
T. Rex,
Banda Bassotti,
Pole,
Depeche Mode,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Scott Walker,
Nils Olav,
Livin' Joy,
KRS-One,
JFA,
Yaz,
Cluster,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Drexciya,
The Dirtbombs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
ABC,
Hashim,
Absolute Body Control,
Yazoo,
the Normal,
Don Cherry,
Ronnie Foster,
Howard Jones,
The Names,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gang Gang Dance,
Soft Cell,
Thompson Twins,
Franke,
Tears for Fears,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.