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 Croatia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 organ 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 Warren Ellis to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Theoretical Girls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Motions,
Roger Hodgson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lucky Dragons,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
ABC,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eurythmics,
Jeru the Damaja,
Marcia Griffiths,
Shuggie Otis,
Erasure,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bobby Sherman,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sun City Girls,
Anthony Braxton,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Godley & Creme,
Mission of Burma,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eve St. Jones,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yazoo,
Goldenarms,
Graham Central Station,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dual Sessions,
The Blues Magoos,
Marc Almond,
Sarah Menescal,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Neil Young,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Brick,
Television,
Liliput,
Mark Hollis,
The Searchers,
Ultra Naté,
Negative Approach,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Archie Shepp,
Donald Byrd,
ABBA,
Bronski Beat,
the Bar-Kays,
Barclay James Harvest,
Aswad,
Pantaleimon,
Fatback Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Swans,
Minny Pops,
FM Einheit,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.