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 Zambia and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Delon & Dalcan to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
John Cale,
Schoolly D,
Althea and Donna,
David Axelrod,
Public Enemy,
Fugazi,
Steve Hackett,
Warren Ellis,
Brothers Johnson,
Little Man,
Drive Like Jehu,
Peter and Kerry,
Stockholm Monsters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Zeros,
Zero Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
One Last Wish,
Roy Ayers,
Soft Machine,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Pretty Things,
John Holt,
The Standells,
Average White Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Visage,
Joe Smooth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Trojans,
New Order,
Gerry Rafferty,
Aural Exciters,
JFA,
Michelle Simonal,
R.M.O.,
Oblivians,
Bootsy Collins,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Excepter,
Lou Reed,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Black Dice,
Isaac Hayes,
Jerry's Kids,
Sparks,
Jandek,
Sex Pistols,
F. McDonald,
The Misunderstood,
The Gun Club,
Joe Finger,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jacob Miller,
Technova,
The Barracudas,
Das Ding,
Tres Demented,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rites of Spring,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.