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 Lithuania and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ornette Coleman to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Patti Smith,
Frankie Knuckles,
Average White Band,
Neil Young,
ABBA,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ronan,
L. Decosne,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Au Pairs,
DNA,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jawbox,
Section 25,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joe Smooth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Throbbing Gristle,
Soft Machine,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Alarm Clocks,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Germs,
Roxette,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Anthony Braxton,
Schoolly D,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Searchers,
Pantaleimon,
Sällskapet,
The Wake,
Pet Shop Boys,
MDC,
Parry Music,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Doobie Brothers,
Stiv Bators,
a-ha,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Gap Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Moby Grape,
Gang Starr,
The Young Rascals,
Symarip,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pylon,
The Saints,
Essential Logic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mojo Men,
Sam Rivers,
Pagans,
Ralphi Rosario,
June Days,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.