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 Romania 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare 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 Animal Collective to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dirtbombs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Technova,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Groovy Waters,
Bluetip,
Talk Talk,
Jimmy McGriff,
Zero Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Star Department,
Traffic Nightmare,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Maurizio,
Country Teasers,
Sight & Sound,
Radiohead,
David Bowie,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scientists,
The Trojans,
Roger Hodgson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Derrick Morgan,
The Happenings,
The Cramps,
Soul II Soul,
Al Stewart,
Alison Limerick,
Stockholm Monsters,
Skarface,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Mars,
FM Einheit,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Alarm Clocks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Scrapy,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bush Tetras,
Animal Collective,
The Beau Brummels,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Blossom Toes,
Loose Ends,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Silicon Teens,
Danielle Patucci,
Hoover,
Mission of Burma,
Main Source,
Soft Machine,
Royal Trux,
The J.B.'s,
Agitation Free,
Lightning Bolt,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ludus,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.