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 Cambodia and from Portland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Loose Ends to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deadbeat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Andrew Hill,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lakeside,
Trumans Water,
Flash Fearless,
The Monks,
Animal Collective,
Half Japanese,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Black Flag,
Procol Harum,
Can,
Carl Craig,
Absolute Body Control,
Kayak,
Pantaleimon,
Alphaville,
Cluster,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sight & Sound,
Agent Orange,
Bobby Womack,
Scan 7,
Dennis Brown,
Fatback Band,
The Fugs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mantronix,
Thee Headcoats,
Japan,
John Foxx,
Marine Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Piero Umiliani,
Easy Going,
Vainqueur,
Brass Construction,
Duran Duran,
Black Sheep,
Robert Wyatt,
Pulsallama,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Star Department,
the Germs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Scott Walker,
Jeff Lynne,
Fear,
Blossom Toes,
Gang Starr,
Rufus Thomas,
These Immortal Souls,
Soulsonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kas Product,
Negative Approach,
The Slackers,
Little Man,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.