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 Denmark and from Accra.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Milan.
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 clarinet 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the crunk 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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All James White and The Blacks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Nirvana,
The Mojo Men,
UT,
The Moody Blues,
Groovy Waters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Country Teasers,
Tommy Roe,
Harpers Bizarre,
Shuggie Otis,
Depeche Mode,
Ludus,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gabor Szabo,
Godley & Creme,
Rekid,
A Certain Ratio,
Fat Boys,
Letta Mbulu,
Laurel Aitken,
Althea and Donna,
One Last Wish,
Jandek,
The Names,
Can,
Cabaret Voltaire,
World's Most,
Roger Hodgson,
The Gap Band,
Technova,
Kool Moe Dee,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Electric Prunes,
This Heat,
The Velvet Underground,
Delta 5,
Funky Four + One,
The Cure,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Danielle Patucci,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Fuzztones,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Flesh Eaters,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Faust,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ralphi Rosario,
Index,
Slave,
The Beau Brummels,
Steve Hackett,
Thompson Twins,
The Techniques,
LL Cool J,
Fatback Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobby Sherman,
La Düsseldorf,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.