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 Norway and from Spokane.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Madrid.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
These Immortal Souls,
The Grass Roots,
Pantytec,
Judy Mowatt,
Yellowson,
Morten Harket,
Sun Ra,
Basic Channel,
Michelle Simonal,
The Young Rascals,
Mandrill,
Joe Finger,
Ronnie Foster,
Absolute Body Control,
Groovy Waters,
The Black Dice,
Mission of Burma,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Reagan Youth,
Gerry Rafferty,
Buzzcocks,
AZ,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
F. McDonald,
The Zeros,
Metal Thangz,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Terry Callier,
Half Japanese,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DJ Sneak,
Bang On A Can,
Surgeon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alison Limerick,
The Motions,
The Seeds,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ralphi Rosario,
John Foxx,
Popol Vuh,
The Fugs,
Yusef Lateef,
Swell Maps,
The Birthday Party,
Saccharine Trust,
The Modern Lovers,
The Golliwogs,
Babytalk,
Soft Cell,
World's Most,
The Busters,
Lou Christie,
The Invisible,
Derrick Morgan,
Ken Boothe,
Gichy Dan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.