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 Iceland and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Soft Cell to the grunge 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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Joyce Sims,
Black Bananas,
Don Cherry,
Interpol,
Sandy B,
The Count Five,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sound Behaviour,
Judy Mowatt,
Tears for Fears,
The Last Poets,
the Swans,
The Trojans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Japan,
The Happenings,
Sam Rivers,
Ten City,
The Young Rascals,
Rosa Yemen,
Vladislav Delay,
Black Pus,
The Associates,
The Buckinghams,
Howard Jones,
Slick Rick,
John Holt,
Harry Pussy,
Brand Nubian,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lalo Schifrin,
Barbara Tucker,
Drexciya,
Kayak,
The Misunderstood,
The Gladiators,
Symarip,
The Move,
ABC,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Sherman,
The Seeds,
Todd Rundgren,
The Techniques,
Das Ding,
The Fortunes,
Depeche Mode,
B.T. Express,
Lakeside,
Masters at Work,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Parry Music,
Banda Bassotti,
Shoche,
Eric Copeland,
Gabor Szabo,
Livin' Joy,
Yaz,
Rites of Spring,
Hoover,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental 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.