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 Bahamas and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin 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 Robert Görl 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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish 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 a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Kas Product,
Erykah Badu,
Lucky Dragons,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Slits,
Flipper,
DJ Sneak,
Yaz,
Flamin' Groovies,
Supertramp,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Avey Tare,
Siglo XX,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lebanon Hanover,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dorothy Ashby,
Vladislav Delay,
Archie Shepp,
Mr. Review,
The Fire Engines,
Heaven 17,
Ronnie Foster,
ABBA,
Dennis Brown,
Crooked Eye,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sun City Girls,
The Stooges,
Judy Mowatt,
The Cramps,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Model 500,
Animal Collective,
Bobby Byrd,
Severed Heads,
Mark Hollis,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Make Up,
The Victims,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Urselle,
The Velvet Underground,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bizarre Inc.,
Easy Going,
Joensuu 1685,
Harmonia,
Rapeman,
Roxette,
Agitation Free,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Von Mondo,
Derrick Morgan,
Camberwell Now,
Junior Murvin,
The Pop Group,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.