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 Dominica and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Mexico City and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 clarinet 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 Albert Ayler to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Ponytail,
Scott Walker,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
10cc,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
ABBA,
Crispian St. Peters,
Schoolly D,
Tubeway Army,
Pylon,
Zapp,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Swell Maps,
Lakeside,
Stereo Dub,
Crime,
The Divine Comedy,
Johnny Clarke,
Gang Starr,
Marc Almond,
Joe Finger,
Half Japanese,
Bootsy Collins,
Derrick Morgan,
The Litter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Fugazi,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barrington Levy,
The United States of America,
R.M.O.,
The Golliwogs,
Duran Duran,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Unrelated Segments,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Skarface,
Q65,
Flash Fearless,
Adolescents,
Vainqueur,
Isaac Hayes,
The Monochrome Set,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Cowsills,
Buzzcocks,
Lower 48,
Absolute Body Control,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Agent Orange,
Junior Murvin,
The Walker Brothers,
MDC,
Charles Mingus,
Quando Quango,
Girls At Our Best!,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.