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 Ghana and from Lyon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 Rotary Connection to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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 Sonics,
Stereo Dub,
A Certain Ratio,
Black Sheep,
The Durutti Column,
Liliput,
Kas Product,
Los Fastidios,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Agitation Free,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Vogues,
Letta Mbulu,
The Offenders,
Ronan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Drive Like Jehu,
Maurizio,
Alton Ellis,
Blake Baxter,
Public Image Ltd.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nico,
Echospace,
KRS-One,
Cheater Slicks,
Urselle,
Sandy B,
Ohio Players,
Nils Olav,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sight & Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blancmange,
Youth Brigade,
Hardrive,
Zapp,
Freddie Wadling,
the Bar-Kays,
Yazoo,
The Searchers,
DJ Sneak,
Sugar Minott,
Crime,
Pulsallama,
The Standells,
Technova,
Young Marble Giants,
Moebius,
Alphaville,
Arab on Radar,
The Victims,
Tres Demented,
Ronnie Foster,
Erasure,
The Neon Judgement,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.