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 Bahamas and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin 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 Avey Tare to the disco 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Max Romeo,
The Smiths,
Curtis Mayfield,
Donald Byrd,
D'Angelo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aural Exciters,
Gichy Dan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Seeds,
Camouflage,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jawbox,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Television,
Stereo Dub,
Johnny Clarke,
Scientists,
Johnny Osbourne,
Howard Jones,
Scion,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nirvana,
Supertramp,
Television Personalities,
Lyres,
Wasted Youth,
Althea and Donna,
Ten City,
Sun City Girls,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rakim,
Scrapy,
The Moody Blues,
The Skatalites,
H. Thieme,
June of 44,
Mantronix,
Japan,
The Cramps,
Massinfluence,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Cure,
The Black Dice,
The Grass Roots,
cv313,
Roy Ayers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Davy DMX,
Ronnie Foster,
Los Fastidios,
The Angels of Light,
Pulsallama,
Intrusion,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rod Modell,
Black Sheep,
Pantaleimon,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.