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 Yemen and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and New York.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lucky Dragons to the punk 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 Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Soft Cell,
The Music Machine,
James White and The Blacks,
The Kinks,
Dark Day,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
10cc,
Susan Cadogan,
Quadrant,
Sarah Menescal,
The Red Krayola,
Donald Byrd,
Joy Division,
The Divine Comedy,
Yaz,
Cybotron,
Rekid,
Chris & Cosey,
CMW,
Underground Resistance,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lalann,
Crime,
Carl Craig,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Yazoo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ten City,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Urselle,
Johnny Clarke,
Faust,
JFA,
Lee Hazlewood,
Blake Baxter,
Inner City,
Chris Corsano,
PIL,
The American Breed,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
R.M.O.,
The Gap Band,
Au Pairs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Remains,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Avey Tare,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
D'Angelo,
Ice-T,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Aural Exciters,
Robert Görl,
The Human League,
Organ,
Monks,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.