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 Bulgaria and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 spring reverb 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 Kool Moe Dee to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Mission of Burma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
June Days,
Altered Images,
The Grass Roots,
Trumans Water,
The Cramps,
Ituana,
Piero Umiliani,
Tommy Roe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Steve Hackett,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Wake,
UT,
Agitation Free,
Dorothy Ashby,
Man Parrish,
Skriet,
Amon Düül,
Oneida,
Slave,
Aural Exciters,
The Smoke,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Massinfluence,
Marc Almond,
The Raincoats,
Tomorrow,
Scan 7,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lungfish,
Susan Cadogan,
Ludus,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Joe Smooth,
R.M.O.,
Fela Kuti,
Jeff Lynne,
Buzzcocks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gregory Isaacs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Danielle Patucci,
One Last Wish,
Black Pus,
Aloha Tigers,
Rakim,
Alison Limerick,
John Lydon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bauhaus,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.