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 Congo and from London.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Archie Shepp to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Eurythmics,
The Raincoats,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
EPMD,
Chris & Cosey,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jandek,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lindisfarne,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kaleidoscope,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Minutemen,
Infiniti,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mission of Burma,
The Evens,
The Count Five,
Urselle,
Lungfish,
Liliput,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pantytec,
Amon Düül II,
Cybotron,
Chrome,
New Order,
Fela Kuti,
The Smoke,
Depeche Mode,
Scratch Acid,
Funky Four + One,
Reuben Wilson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Barracudas,
Al Stewart,
Country Teasers,
Slick Rick,
Ice-T,
The Fugs,
The Durutti Column,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soul II Soul,
Rotary Connection,
X-Ray Spex,
Malaria!,
Tom Boy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Shadows of Knight,
Archie Shepp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Toasters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.