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 Somalia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 chamberlin 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 Zero Boys to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
The Fuzztones,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Skarface,
Dual Sessions,
Panda Bear,
Massinfluence,
Reuben Wilson,
Nik Kershaw,
One Last Wish,
Sugar Minott,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aloha Tigers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fela Kuti,
10cc,
Royal Trux,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Siglo XX,
Heaven 17,
Ituana,
The Techniques,
Lyres,
Bauhaus,
Warsaw,
Lightning Bolt,
The Smiths,
Loose Ends,
The Last Poets,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jeff Mills,
Moebius,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wasted Youth,
Swell Maps,
Delta 5,
The Move,
Moss Icon,
EPMD,
Outsiders,
Nils Olav,
Man Eating Sloth,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Slits,
Aaron Thompson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Althea and Donna,
Das Ding,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Golliwogs,
The Beau Brummels,
Sex Pistols,
The Offenders,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gang Green,
Robert Görl,
Ponytail,
The Alarm Clocks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.