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 Guinea and from Houston.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Shoche to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Wings,
John Lydon,
Flipper,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sam Rivers,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Golliwogs,
Kerri Chandler,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bobby Sherman,
Kas Product,
Sound Behaviour,
Mary Jane Girls,
UT,
Amazonics,
Althea and Donna,
Albert Ayler,
Quantec,
Sparks,
Peter and Kerry,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
David McCallum,
Funkadelic,
The Grass Roots,
Hashim,
The Music Machine,
Sexual Harrassment,
David Bowie,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Loose Ends,
The Remains,
Lee Hazlewood,
Unrelated Segments,
Laurel Aitken,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sonic Youth,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Germs,
John Coltrane,
Toni Rubio,
Trumans Water,
Matthew Bourne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Quadrant,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Johnny Clarke,
Jandek,
Black Bananas,
The Evens,
Boredoms,
Aural Exciters,
Kurtis Blow,
Skarface,
Barrington Levy,
Amon Düül II,
Panda Bear,
Camouflage,
Deadbeat,
Tears for Fears,
Lou Christie,
Yaz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.