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 Samoa 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Halifax.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 James White and The Blacks to the funk 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacques Brel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Chrome,
Niagra,
Shuggie Otis,
The Searchers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sällskapet,
Agitation Free,
Main Source,
The Index,
Yusef Lateef,
John Holt,
Grey Daturas,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Vogues,
Smog,
Roy Ayers,
Lakeside,
Absolute Body Control,
Joy Division,
Basic Channel,
the Sonics,
Jeff Lynne,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Delta 5,
Eden Ahbez,
Minny Pops,
Chris & Cosey,
Sam Rivers,
Kenny Larkin,
Q and Not U,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Techniques,
Zapp,
Visage,
Amazonics,
The Fugs,
Groovy Waters,
Ultravox,
Malaria!,
Urselle,
Lucky Dragons,
Warren Ellis,
K-Klass,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Oneida,
Joyce Sims,
Altered Images,
MC5,
Slave,
Minor Threat,
the Swans,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Smiths,
Reagan Youth,
Steve Hackett,
Patti Smith,
Duran Duran,
Dave Gahan,
Eric Copeland,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.