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 Liberia and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Quantec to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Frankie Knuckles record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Q and Not U,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Robert Hood,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang Gang Dance,
Loose Ends,
Essential Logic,
The Victims,
Letta Mbulu,
James White and The Blacks,
Young Marble Giants,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Moebius,
Ash Ra Tempel,
China Crisis,
Magazine,
The Fall,
Marvin Gaye,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Count Five,
Pierre Henry,
the Human League,
Siglo XX,
Absolute Body Control,
Stiv Bators,
X-102,
The Sound,
Underground Resistance,
Eric Dolphy,
Tears for Fears,
The Beau Brummels,
Rapeman,
the Soft Cell,
Derrick May,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Average White Band,
Mandrill,
The Barracudas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Wyatt,
Pussy Galore,
Simply Red,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Bar-Kays,
Delta 5,
Darondo,
T.S.O.L.,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yazoo,
Outsiders,
Godley & Creme,
FM Einheit,
Fluxion,
Kurtis Blow,
Ronnie Foster,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Walker Brothers,
Half Japanese,
Panda Bear,
Janne Schatter,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.