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 Belgium and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fela Kuti to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Thompson Twins,
Ken Boothe,
Sixth Finger,
Boredoms,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Susan Cadogan,
Lower 48,
The Red Krayola,
Livin' Joy,
Pantytec,
Alison Limerick,
Masters at Work,
The Fall,
Jerry Gold Smith,
David Bowie,
Siglo XX,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jawbox,
Ponytail,
Organ,
The Walker Brothers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kayak,
Lakeside,
Chris & Cosey,
Dawn Penn,
Roxette,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pylon,
Trumans Water,
Nik Kershaw,
The Cramps,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Zeros,
Circle Jerks,
Aural Exciters,
The Smiths,
Erykah Badu,
Gang Green,
Black Sheep,
Scrapy,
Minny Pops,
The Moleskins,
Negative Approach,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Steve Hackett,
Kenny Larkin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rapeman,
Crime,
New Age Steppers,
Roger Hodgson,
Absolute Body Control,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grey Daturas,
Gong,
The Dirtbombs,
The American Breed,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Marine Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.