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 Columbus.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
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 The Sonics to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
DJ Sneak,
The Invisible,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Flag,
OOIOO,
Gichy Dan,
The Evens,
Loose Ends,
kango's stein massive,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Real Kids,
Idris Muhammad,
Marc Almond,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kenny Larkin,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Beau Brummels,
Bill Wells,
The Zeros,
H. Thieme,
Tom Boy,
Interpol,
X-101,
Kaleidoscope,
Amon Düül II,
The Doors,
The Victims,
Quando Quango,
MC5,
The Velvet Underground,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Byron Stingily,
Shuggie Otis,
Y Pants,
David McCallum,
T.S.O.L.,
Lou Reed,
Colin Newman,
Massinfluence,
The Toasters,
Jacob Miller,
Public Enemy,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Man Parrish,
Maurizio,
Slick Rick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Little Man,
8 Eyed Spy,
Blancmange,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Royal Trux,
The Offenders,
Harpers Bizarre,
Brick,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.