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 South Africa and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Warsaw to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fort Wilson Riot 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
The Busters,
Prince Buster,
Brand Nubian,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Fuzztones,
Shoche,
Donny Hathaway,
The Neon Judgement,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Invisible,
Fear,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scratch Acid,
June Days,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Sneak,
Kayak,
Stetsasonic,
Electric Light Orchestra,
OOIOO,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Wake,
Lakeside,
Eden Ahbez,
Neil Young,
Q and Not U,
The Sound,
The Fire Engines,
Wasted Youth,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Index,
Outsiders,
Hardrive,
Bluetip,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Excepter,
Steve Hackett,
Y Pants,
James White and The Blacks,
Erykah Badu,
Marmalade,
Jacques Brel,
The Music Machine,
Bizarre Inc.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Morten Harket,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Aswad,
MC5,
Pylon,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kool Moe Dee,
Zapp,
Jacob Miller,
ABC,
Liliput,
Rotary Connection,
The Golliwogs,
Ken Boothe,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.