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 Cambodia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 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 Oneida to the funk 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 The Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Golliwogs,
Angry Samoans,
Mantronix,
Harmonia,
In Retrospect,
Sparks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joey Negro,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Masters at Work,
Lungfish,
The Victims,
The Alarm Clocks,
Michelle Simonal,
Tommy Roe,
Unwound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Duran Duran,
Visage,
Stetsasonic,
Cecil Taylor,
Public Enemy,
Alphaville,
Trumans Water,
Aural Exciters,
Prince Buster,
Jawbox,
Monolake,
Cymande,
Technova,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gap Band,
Animal Collective,
The Moody Blues,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lightning Bolt,
Bizarre Inc.,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Fire Engines,
Albert Ayler,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Tremeloes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tomorrow,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Minny Pops,
Faust,
Aswad,
Rhythm & Sound,
Don Cherry,
Grey Daturas,
Japan,
Henry Cow,
Goldenarms,
Gichy Dan,
Radiopuhelimet,
ABBA,
The Motions,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going, Easy Going.
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.