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 Somalia and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb 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 Flash Fearless to the techno 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sex Pistols,
Parry Music,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Grey Daturas,
Icehouse,
Man Parrish,
Glenn Branca,
Roy Ayers,
Joyce Sims,
Erasure,
Anakelly,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Model 500,
Average White Band,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Toni Rubio,
Matthew Bourne,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yazoo,
Terry Callier,
Marvin Gaye,
Black Moon,
Barrington Levy,
Wings,
Skaos,
The Barracudas,
E-Dancer,
The Birthday Party,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
OOIOO,
Joey Negro,
Minnie Riperton,
Duran Duran,
Ornette Coleman,
Warren Ellis,
China Crisis,
Monolake,
Marcia Griffiths,
Susan Cadogan,
Lucky Dragons,
Thompson Twins,
Boredoms,
Roger Hodgson,
EPMD,
The Associates,
The Neon Judgement,
Little Man,
Rosa Yemen,
The Smoke,
Banda Bassotti,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bronski Beat,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
a-ha,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Isaac Hayes,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.