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 Sri Lanka and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Talk Talk to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Spoonie Gee,
Eric Dolphy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cal Tjader,
Joyce Sims,
Loose Ends,
Urselle,
The Trojans,
Jimmy McGriff,
Agent Orange,
The Kinks,
Junior Murvin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tubeway Army,
Aswad,
Yazoo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Golliwogs,
Delta 5,
Donny Hathaway,
Brick,
Accadde A,
Peter & Gordon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Joe Smooth,
The Dead C,
Funky Four + One,
Audionom,
The Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Techniques,
Reagan Youth,
These Immortal Souls,
Ultra Naté,
Lalo Schifrin,
Motorama,
Can,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lightning Bolt,
Gang of Four,
Mars,
Boredoms,
X-Ray Spex,
DJ Sneak,
Icehouse,
Slick Rick,
Pagans,
Swell Maps,
June of 44,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pole,
Robert Wyatt,
Skaos,
Sun Ra,
Bronski Beat,
Los Fastidios,
Fad Gadget,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.