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 Tanzania and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 clarinet 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 Ornette Coleman to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly 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 punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Prince Buster,
Roxette,
KRS-One,
Zapp,
The Electric Prunes,
Von Mondo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
EPMD,
Essential Logic,
Peter & Gordon,
Yusef Lateef,
Blancmange,
Heaven 17,
Big Daddy Kane,
Neu!,
Jandek,
Negative Approach,
The Red Krayola,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
R.M.O.,
This Heat,
David Axelrod,
Index,
Robert Hood,
Maurizio,
Sarah Menescal,
Lou Christie,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ornette Coleman,
Kas Product,
Pere Ubu,
The Count Five,
DJ Style,
The Associates,
Terry Callier,
the Germs,
Shoche,
Ossler,
Colin Newman,
The Busters,
Spandau Ballet,
Alphaville,
The Zeros,
June Days,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soft Cell,
Magazine,
The Fire Engines,
The Gories,
Mad Mike,
One Last Wish,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tommy Roe,
Scion,
John Holt,
The Fortunes,
Country Teasers,
Bad Manners,
Crash Course in Science,
The Gap Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental 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.