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 Belgium and from Edmonton.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Newcleus to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Evens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
The Stooges,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Normal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Tropical Tobacco,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gang Gang Dance,
Soul II Soul,
Chris Corsano,
Smog,
Scan 7,
Drive Like Jehu,
H. Thieme,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Boz Scaggs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Little Man,
Mantronix,
The Cramps,
Yaz,
Negative Approach,
OOIOO,
Archie Shepp,
Intrusion,
Eric Copeland,
Glambeats Corp.,
Shuggie Otis,
The New Christs,
Infiniti,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tim Buckley,
Neil Young,
Mission of Burma,
Nils Olav,
Jacques Brel,
Bluetip,
Grey Daturas,
cv313,
Schoolly D,
Hot Snakes,
The Dirtbombs,
Surgeon,
Black Sheep,
Absolute Body Control,
Gang Green,
In Retrospect,
Joensuu 1685,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eden Ahbez,
Gastr Del Sol,
Excepter,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lucky Dragons,
Public Enemy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pagans,
Eric Dolphy,
Anakelly,
The Wake,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.