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 Ghana and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 Jakarta and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro 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 The Evens to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
CMW,
Funky Four + One,
The Residents,
Charles Mingus,
The Five Americans,
the Sonics,
Echospace,
Pantaleimon,
Nils Olav,
The Move,
Deepchord,
June Days,
the Human League,
Crooked Eye,
Bush Tetras,
Barry Ungar,
Jeff Mills,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Index,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rakim,
The Velvet Underground,
Liliput,
Swell Maps,
Curtis Mayfield,
LL Cool J,
The Selecter,
The Martian,
Mary Jane Girls,
cv313,
Piero Umiliani,
Rufus Thomas,
Bluetip,
Rosa Yemen,
Oblivians,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Neon Judgement,
Von Mondo,
Pylon,
Lower 48,
Zero Boys,
Nico,
Subhumans,
Cluster,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Zeros,
The Offenders,
Eric Copeland,
Jacob Miller,
Fela Kuti,
Kevin Saunderson,
Blossom Toes,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Smoke,
Ossler,
Aural Exciters,
Faraquet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bronski Beat,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.