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 Taiwan and from Tokyo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Cybotron to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Techniques,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ossler,
Barrington Levy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Matthew Halsall,
Joy Division,
Joensuu 1685,
Echospace,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Motions,
FM Einheit,
Scan 7,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tim Buckley,
Moebius,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Albert Ayler,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Susan Cadogan,
Animal Collective,
Soul II Soul,
Negative Approach,
Scion,
Neu!,
In Retrospect,
Absolute Body Control,
Juan Atkins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pere Ubu,
Bronski Beat,
Lakeside,
Niagra,
Blossom Toes,
Nils Olav,
MC5,
Boredoms,
Swans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Radiohead,
Spoonie Gee,
The Monks,
The Music Machine,
Roxette,
Bauhaus,
X-101,
Scrapy,
Country Teasers,
KRS-One,
The Last Poets,
Todd Rundgren,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Monochrome Set,
The Star Department,
Peter and Kerry,
Delon & Dalcan,
Easy Going,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Q and Not U,
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.