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 Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sparks to the rock 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James White and The Blacks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
Radiohead,
Frankie Knuckles,
Moby Grape,
Shoche,
Ornette Coleman,
Lalo Schifrin,
John Foxx,
Theoretical Girls,
The Human League,
The Velvet Underground,
JFA,
Blossom Toes,
The Victims,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun City Girls,
Alice Coltrane,
Soft Machine,
The Dead C,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yaz,
Donny Hathaway,
U.S. Maple,
Derrick Morgan,
This Heat,
B.T. Express,
Brass Construction,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Blake Baxter,
Kevin Saunderson,
Model 500,
Magma,
Tom Boy,
Camberwell Now,
Jawbox,
Pere Ubu,
Trumans Water,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Motorama,
Anakelly,
PIL,
Masters at Work,
Todd Rundgren,
the Human League,
Spandau Ballet,
The Gladiators,
Ituana,
Kaleidoscope,
Circle Jerks,
Rosa Yemen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cheater Slicks,
Stetsasonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Icehouse,
X-101,
Sun Ra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Talk Talk,
Accadde A,
Juan Atkins,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman.
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.