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 Ethiopia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 AZ to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television 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 an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
the Association,
Soulsonic Force,
Marmalade,
Gregory Isaacs,
Soul II Soul,
Bronski Beat,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Blossom Toes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Black Moon,
The Real Kids,
Tears for Fears,
Au Pairs,
Dual Sessions,
Sexual Harrassment,
Hot Snakes,
Dennis Brown,
Joe Finger,
John Foxx,
Black Flag,
Excepter,
DNA,
Parry Music,
Laurel Aitken,
LL Cool J,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Beau Brummels,
Oblivians,
Rapeman,
Malaria!,
Yusef Lateef,
The Mojo Men,
Ultimate Spinach,
Chrome,
The Fortunes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
OOIOO,
Sound Behaviour,
Roxy Music,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Max Romeo,
Bobby Womack,
Deepchord,
David Bowie,
Marvin Gaye,
Harry Pussy,
Tom Boy,
Joyce Sims,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moss Icon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scientists,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Surgeon,
The Stooges,
The Buckinghams,
Rufus Thomas,
The Martian,
Andrew Hill,
The Remains,
The Last Poets,
The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings.
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.