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 Pakistan and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Audionom to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Al Stewart,
Fugazi,
Tubeway Army,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Robert Hood,
Nick Fraelich,
Stereo Dub,
The Shadows of Knight,
Derrick Morgan,
Agent Orange,
A Certain Ratio,
Eyeless In Gaza,
R.M.O.,
Yusef Lateef,
Essential Logic,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lou Reed,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Modern Lovers,
X-Ray Spex,
The Beau Brummels,
World's Most,
The Neon Judgement,
Aloha Tigers,
Main Source,
Andrew Hill,
Au Pairs,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Black Flag,
Index,
Joy Division,
Whodini,
Basic Channel,
Aaron Thompson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
James White and The Blacks,
Godley & Creme,
The Gun Club,
The Smiths,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Masters at Work,
T.S.O.L.,
Organ,
Fad Gadget,
The Divine Comedy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Rufus Thomas,
Leonard Cohen,
Erasure,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Drexciya,
The Offenders,
Sandy B,
The Selecter,
Cecil Taylor,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bad Manners,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.