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 Angola and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 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 Sugar Minott to the disco 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Beau Brummels record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
The Count Five,
Severed Heads,
Tomorrow,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Brand Nubian,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Residents,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cybotron,
Matthew Bourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pole,
The American Breed,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eve St. Jones,
The Pretty Things,
China Crisis,
The Move,
Ornette Coleman,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bobby Sherman,
Brothers Johnson,
Brass Construction,
Black Flag,
Ohio Players,
Joe Smooth,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Juan Atkins,
Crooked Eye,
Robert Hood,
the Normal,
Aloha Tigers,
Soulsonic Force,
The Names,
Quantec,
Pantaleimon,
Graham Central Station,
Radiopuhelimet,
Visage,
Eric Dolphy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sun Ra,
Alphaville,
Dennis Brown,
Scott Walker,
Qualms,
Marmalade,
Jesper Dahlback,
Young Marble Giants,
Moebius,
New Age Steppers,
Andrew Hill,
PIL,
Jawbox,
Sonic Youth,
Cal Tjader,
Ituana,
Mandrill,
Deadbeat,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.