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 Dominican Republic and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ronnie Foster to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Swell Maps,
Magma,
Oblivians,
Porter Ricks,
E-Dancer,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Television,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tres Demented,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Prince Buster,
Sonic Youth,
FM Einheit,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pagans,
The Zeros,
Sonny Sharrock,
Smog,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Warren Ellis,
Robert Görl,
The Seeds,
Youth Brigade,
Bill Near,
Sound Behaviour,
Laurel Aitken,
ABBA,
Model 500,
The Wake,
Kenny Larkin,
A Certain Ratio,
Scratch Acid,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Liliput,
Funkadelic,
Procol Harum,
48th St. Collective,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
ABC,
Second Layer,
Nirvana,
Boogie Down Productions,
T.S.O.L.,
The Flesh Eaters,
Los Fastidios,
The Neon Judgement,
John Lydon,
The Names,
Alphaville,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Patti Smith,
Rosa Yemen,
The Gap Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Yusef Lateef,
Talk Talk,
Vladislav Delay,
Maurizio,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.