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 Bahamas and from Mumbai.
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 Toronto and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 theremin 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 Saints to the dance 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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Beau Brummels record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sonic Youth,
A Certain Ratio,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter & Gordon,
Aswad,
Stockholm Monsters,
In Retrospect,
Cecil Taylor,
Robert Hood,
Radiopuhelimet,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Metal Thangz,
Crooked Eye,
Pierre Henry,
Ice-T,
Slave,
Rod Modell,
Alphaville,
Neu!,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ludus,
Liliput,
Audionom,
Zapp,
Bush Tetras,
Pulsallama,
The Doors,
Man Parrish,
Reuben Wilson,
Thompson Twins,
Joyce Sims,
Model 500,
New Age Steppers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jeff Lynne,
Robert Görl,
Newcleus,
Subhumans,
Toni Rubio,
Gong,
June Days,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Buzzcocks,
The Pop Group,
Gang Starr,
The Associates,
Faust,
the Association,
MDC,
Maleditus Sound,
Dawn Penn,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Stereo Dub,
Saccharine Trust,
Animal Collective,
Popol Vuh,
Public Enemy,
Swans,
Wire,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.