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 Sudan and from Madrid.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Detroit Cobras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Lindisfarne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camberwell Now,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Theoretical Girls,
Saccharine Trust,
PIL,
FM Einheit,
Minny Pops,
Absolute Body Control,
Agitation Free,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Depeche Mode,
The Fire Engines,
Banda Bassotti,
Marvin Gaye,
Piero Umiliani,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bad Manners,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bobby Byrd,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Wolf Eyes,
The Cramps,
Nirvana,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobby Womack,
Funkadelic,
Brass Construction,
Ten City,
The Human League,
Mission of Burma,
Echospace,
Pagans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Mojo Men,
Gastr Del Sol,
Byron Stingily,
The J.B.'s,
Dennis Brown,
Scan 7,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Dave Clark Five,
Barclay James Harvest,
Charles Mingus,
Surgeon,
The Black Dice,
kango's stein massive,
Kerrie Biddell,
Robert Görl,
Maleditus Sound,
Soul II Soul,
the Germs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Can,
Grauzone,
Young Marble Giants,
Goldenarms,
KRS-One,
Ronan,
Dawn Penn,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.