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 Mauritius and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Dave Clark Five to the funk 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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
The Electric Prunes,
Essential Logic,
David Axelrod,
Model 500,
Liliput,
Pole,
Swans,
Masters at Work,
Grauzone,
Sister Nancy,
Godley & Creme,
Warren Ellis,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
L. Decosne,
Piero Umiliani,
The Dirtbombs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Searchers,
The Gladiators,
Vladislav Delay,
Silicon Teens,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Derrick Morgan,
Quadrant,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Au Pairs,
Leonard Cohen,
The Blues Magoos,
Urselle,
Massinfluence,
Vainqueur,
Roy Ayers,
The Evens,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ultra Naté,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Das Ding,
Barry Ungar,
Lalann,
Letta Mbulu,
Adolescents,
New York Dolls,
This Heat,
Suburban Knight,
Kerri Chandler,
Judy Mowatt,
The Moleskins,
Organ,
Sight & Sound,
John Foxx,
Ten City,
Lee Hazlewood,
Trumans Water,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dave Gahan,
Andrew Hill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.