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 Ecuador and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the theremin 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 Half Japanese to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Franke,
Pole,
World's Most,
Fat Boys,
The Barracudas,
Warren Ellis,
Brass Construction,
Roy Ayers,
Accadde A,
Gichy Dan,
Gang Green,
Thompson Twins,
Con Funk Shun,
Massinfluence,
Groovy Waters,
Man Parrish,
Iggy Pop,
Yaz,
Minutemen,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fortunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Swell Maps,
Arcadia,
Jacques Brel,
Grey Daturas,
Quantec,
The Human League,
Altered Images,
Amon Düül,
Mission of Burma,
Section 25,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Boogie Down Productions,
T.S.O.L.,
ABC,
This Heat,
Leonard Cohen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Morten Harket,
Mr. Review,
JFA,
Sister Nancy,
Josef K,
Rosa Yemen,
Quando Quango,
Sugar Minott,
Bronski Beat,
The Beau Brummels,
Scott Walker,
Saccharine Trust,
Neil Young,
Graham Central Station,
The Star Department,
Monolake,
Scratch Acid,
The Dead C,
H. Thieme,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.