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 Guatemala and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar 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 Camberwell Now to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
K-Klass,
Model 500,
Unwound,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Fortunes,
Altered Images,
Depeche Mode,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cal Tjader,
Skriet,
Sällskapet,
Morten Harket,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Godley & Creme,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Angels of Light,
Colin Newman,
Lakeside,
Robert Hood,
The Dave Clark Five,
Avey Tare,
Lucky Dragons,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Arab on Radar,
Donny Hathaway,
The Selecter,
Idris Muhammad,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lower 48,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Scratch Acid,
Japan,
Babytalk,
Siglo XX,
the Human League,
Second Layer,
Piero Umiliani,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Crime,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Simply Red,
Donald Byrd,
The Slackers,
B.T. Express,
Underground Resistance,
the Swans,
Eli Mardock,
The Mojo Men,
Gastr Del Sol,
Susan Cadogan,
Dawn Penn,
The Black Dice,
Television Personalities,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fluxion,
Wings,
Cluster,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.