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 Togo and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 These Immortal Souls to the grime 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
CMW,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Minutemen,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sandy B,
Cameo,
Crispian St. Peters,
Radiohead,
The Smoke,
Massinfluence,
Animal Collective,
Heaven 17,
Max Romeo,
Eddi Front,
The Pretty Things,
Duran Duran,
The Fortunes,
Patti Smith,
Donald Byrd,
Circle Jerks,
Minny Pops,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
A Certain Ratio,
Outsiders,
Monks,
ABC,
Stereo Dub,
Liliput,
Joy Division,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Spoonie Gee,
Zapp,
Aaron Thompson,
Cluster,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Blues Magoos,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Standells,
Lyres,
Television Personalities,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Tremeloes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eli Mardock,
The New Christs,
The Misunderstood,
Skriet,
Silicon Teens,
The Victims,
Cal Tjader,
Swans,
Pussy Galore,
The Slackers,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Beau Brummels,
Matthew Bourne,
Mad Mike,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.