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 Swaziland and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
K-Klass,
Dead Boys,
The Remains,
Isaac Hayes,
Royal Trux,
Soul II Soul,
Aloha Tigers,
Sun City Girls,
Television Personalities,
Bluetip,
Moebius,
Sandy B,
The Saints,
Dennis Brown,
Qualms,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gang Gang Dance,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marmalade,
Fluxion,
Youth Brigade,
Kaleidoscope,
E-Dancer,
Matthew Halsall,
The Names,
The Buckinghams,
Bobby Byrd,
Warsaw,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Monolake,
Deadbeat,
Nirvana,
Jawbox,
Derrick May,
Vainqueur,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rapeman,
Scan 7,
Young Marble Giants,
Masters at Work,
Joey Negro,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobby Womack,
Unwound,
Bootsy Collins,
The Young Rascals,
ABBA,
Agent Orange,
Henry Cow,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lee Hazlewood,
Parry Music,
Crash Course in Science,
The Motions,
The Cramps,
Jeff Mills,
Sugar Minott,
Nation of Ulysses,
Absolute Body Control,
Reagan Youth,
Whodini,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon.
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.