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 Malaysia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scientists,
Fatback Band,
The Misunderstood,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jandek,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Idris Muhammad,
Whodini,
Vainqueur,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DJ Sneak,
Glenn Branca,
Tim Buckley,
a-ha,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ohio Players,
Average White Band,
Bill Wells,
Altered Images,
Juan Atkins,
The Zeros,
The Gories,
Nik Kershaw,
Marshall Jefferson,
Junior Murvin,
Ronnie Foster,
E-Dancer,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Monks,
The J.B.'s,
U.S. Maple,
The Young Rascals,
Ultravox,
Jawbox,
Ken Boothe,
Lightning Bolt,
Reuben Wilson,
David Axelrod,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Saccharine Trust,
Ronan,
Funkadelic,
Mission of Burma,
Bush Tetras,
Little Man,
Supertramp,
Ice-T,
Eddi Front,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Infiniti,
In Retrospect,
James White and The Blacks,
Dark Day,
Tom Boy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.