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 Ethiopia and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 PIL to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Saints. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brass Construction,
Moebius,
Deepchord,
Interpol,
The Raincoats,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hot Snakes,
Yusef Lateef,
Don Cherry,
Chrome,
Buzzcocks,
Marvin Gaye,
The Neon Judgement,
The Fuzztones,
Rosa Yemen,
Electric Light Orchestra,
10cc,
The J.B.'s,
Smog,
the Human League,
Rapeman,
Q and Not U,
Gerry Rafferty,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Trojans,
Lindisfarne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Idris Muhammad,
The Selecter,
The Doors,
Sandy B,
Mr. Review,
Kool Moe Dee,
MDC,
Scion,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Circle Jerks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delta 5,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Underground Resistance,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Electric Prunes,
Swell Maps,
Rotary Connection,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Grass Roots,
the Bar-Kays,
Pagans,
The Golliwogs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Groovy Waters,
Excepter,
One Last Wish,
Erasure,
Vladislav Delay,
T. Rex,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Reagan Youth,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.