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 Japan and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Standells to the funk 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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Steve Hackett,
Anakelly,
Visage,
the Human League,
Iggy Pop,
Cymande,
Index,
The Skatalites,
the Association,
The Mummies,
The Birthday Party,
Thee Headcoats,
The Fortunes,
Andrew Hill,
Robert Görl,
Rakim,
Delta 5,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Smog,
the Slits,
Basic Channel,
Tres Demented,
The Mojo Men,
The Five Americans,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Skaos,
The Toasters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-101,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Buckinghams,
Average White Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Seeds,
Grandmaster Flash,
Soft Machine,
Kas Product,
Sun City Girls,
Gang Gang Dance,
Symarip,
Flipper,
Sandy B,
Black Bananas,
Soul Sonic Force,
Erykah Badu,
The Wake,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter and Kerry,
Bobby Sherman,
Ohio Players,
10cc,
Tubeway Army,
Wally Richardson,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Moby Grape,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.