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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Copenhagen.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Crooked Eye to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
AZ,
Scan 7,
Rosa Yemen,
Gang Green,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Curtis Mayfield,
Von Mondo,
Dave Gahan,
Marine Girls,
Tom Boy,
Sun City Girls,
Shoche,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Carl Craig,
Basic Channel,
Letta Mbulu,
Sonic Youth,
The United States of America,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Q65,
Royal Trux,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Outsiders,
Porter Ricks,
Sound Behaviour,
David McCallum,
Dual Sessions,
Toni Rubio,
Niagra,
Mark Hollis,
Schoolly D,
Heaven 17,
The Smiths,
World's Most,
Glambeats Corp.,
Country Teasers,
Alphaville,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Tears for Fears,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Procol Harum,
Rotary Connection,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rufus Thomas,
Man Parrish,
Malaria!,
Aswad,
cv313,
EPMD,
Donny Hathaway,
Reuben Wilson,
The Beau Brummels,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hot Snakes,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.