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 Oman and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Sun Ra to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Brand Nubian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Q65,
Lou Reed,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Amon Düül,
Monolake,
The Five Americans,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Warsaw,
Pere Ubu,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
David Axelrod,
The Selecter,
Deadbeat,
U.S. Maple,
X-101,
Ituana,
Kevin Saunderson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobbi Humphrey,
kango's stein massive,
Alphaville,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bush Tetras,
Blake Baxter,
Slick Rick,
Neil Young,
The Slackers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jacob Miller,
Nils Olav,
Skaos,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Soul II Soul,
Moebius,
Johnny Clarke,
Spoonie Gee,
Jeff Lynne,
Kerri Chandler,
Bill Wells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Zeros,
Basic Channel,
Davy DMX,
Joe Finger,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
A Certain Ratio,
Whodini,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Robert Görl,
Wire,
the Soft Cell,
Easy Going,
This Heat,
Country Joe & The Fish,
FM Einheit,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Swans,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.