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 France and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Parry Music to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Normal. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Archie Shepp,
Y Pants,
X-102,
Drexciya,
Chris Corsano,
The Offenders,
Hot Snakes,
Man Parrish,
Bobby Womack,
Underground Resistance,
DJ Style,
Charles Mingus,
Sound Behaviour,
Bad Manners,
Kevin Saunderson,
Liliput,
Ken Boothe,
Goldenarms,
the Slits,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lightning Bolt,
Yazoo,
The Neon Judgement,
Animal Collective,
Camouflage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wally Richardson,
OOIOO,
The Doors,
Connie Case,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Flipper,
Kayak,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Joe Smooth,
Supertramp,
Section 25,
Fluxion,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neil Young,
Pole,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Residents,
New York Dolls,
The Mojo Men,
Pharoah Sanders,
Accadde A,
Chris & Cosey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roxy Music,
The Grass Roots,
Nation of Ulysses,
Barbara Tucker,
Second Layer,
Donny Hathaway,
The Young Rascals,
Scan 7,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.