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 Ukraine and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare 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 Scientists to the electroclash 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smoke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
This Heat,
Yaz,
KRS-One,
Magma,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Trumans Water,
Sight & Sound,
Johnny Osbourne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wolf Eyes,
Ponytail,
Robert Görl,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Babytalk,
La Düsseldorf,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fela Kuti,
the Association,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sun City Girls,
Moss Icon,
Tommy Roe,
Brass Construction,
Todd Rundgren,
Erasure,
The Modern Lovers,
B.T. Express,
Amon Düül II,
Donny Hathaway,
Kaleidoscope,
Reagan Youth,
Harpers Bizarre,
Youth Brigade,
Johnny Clarke,
Sonic Youth,
Accadde A,
Livin' Joy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Monks,
John Foxx,
Chrome,
Echospace,
Bluetip,
Slick Rick,
Dawn Penn,
The Fuzztones,
Young Marble Giants,
Absolute Body Control,
Chris & Cosey,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
One Last Wish,
Dark Day,
Alton Ellis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Duran Duran,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Byron Stingily,
Wasted Youth,
Con Funk Shun,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.