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 Nicaragua 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Bad Manners to the jazz 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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 48th St. Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Popol Vuh,
Main Source,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Mojo Men,
Circle Jerks,
Mission of Burma,
Ossler,
Television,
The Associates,
Leonard Cohen,
The Buckinghams,
The Knickerbockers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aaron Thompson,
Faraquet,
Panda Bear,
The Fire Engines,
John Foxx,
Bad Manners,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dorothy Ashby,
Cheater Slicks,
Cybotron,
Neil Young,
The Index,
F. McDonald,
Hasil Adkins,
Pantaleimon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dead Boys,
EPMD,
Black Pus,
Fad Gadget,
Patti Smith,
10cc,
Deakin,
The Barracudas,
Dual Sessions,
New York Dolls,
Toni Rubio,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Joe Smooth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David Axelrod,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Dead C,
Guru Guru,
Eli Mardock,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Tears for Fears,
Tim Buckley,
Sarah Menescal,
Kas Product,
the Swans,
Rod Modell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pussy Galore,
Eddi Front,
LL Cool J,
Carl Craig,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.