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 Tonga and from New York.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 DNA to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum 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 güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fad Gadget,
Wasted Youth,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Massinfluence,
KRS-One,
Alison Limerick,
Unrelated Segments,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Television Personalities,
The Misunderstood,
The Blues Magoos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dual Sessions,
FM Einheit,
Sun Ra,
Joensuu 1685,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Bar-Kays,
Young Marble Giants,
Kerrie Biddell,
Swell Maps,
Gastr Del Sol,
The United States of America,
The Knickerbockers,
Cal Tjader,
Technova,
Judy Mowatt,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bootsy Collins,
Deepchord,
Derrick May,
This Heat,
The New Christs,
The Flesh Eaters,
Junior Murvin,
The Cure,
Livin' Joy,
Cymande,
the Normal,
Quantec,
Steve Hackett,
Juan Atkins,
John Holt,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Moebius,
Rapeman,
Roy Ayers,
Niagra,
Freddie Wadling,
Robert Görl,
The Young Rascals,
Eden Ahbez,
Rod Modell,
Johnny Clarke,
Lightning Bolt,
Camouflage,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.