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 Yemen and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 Jerry's Kids to the electroclash 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Cluster,
Jesper Dahlback,
Alphaville,
Sun City Girls,
Skriet,
The Beau Brummels,
The Buckinghams,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Red Krayola,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hashim,
T.S.O.L.,
Zapp,
The Five Americans,
Porter Ricks,
Yusef Lateef,
Jacob Miller,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Move,
Jawbox,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Basic Channel,
Pussy Galore,
The Gladiators,
Rosa Yemen,
Gang Green,
Scrapy,
Icehouse,
Essential Logic,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Main Source,
Eli Mardock,
The Divine Comedy,
kango's stein massive,
Graham Central Station,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Robert Görl,
Q65,
The Dave Clark Five,
ABBA,
The Skatalites,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bronski Beat,
Scientists,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Technova,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Bar-Kays,
The Star Department,
Derrick Morgan,
a-ha,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Searchers,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.