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 Korea North and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Unwound to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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 Joe & The Fish,
Erykah Badu,
the Germs,
The Star Department,
D'Angelo,
CMW,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Accadde A,
PIL,
Jacob Miller,
The Tremeloes,
Barbara Tucker,
Dennis Brown,
Gong,
The Human League,
The Buckinghams,
Royal Trux,
The Zeros,
The Toasters,
Make Up,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Henry Cow,
Harry Pussy,
Bush Tetras,
Jeff Lynne,
A Certain Ratio,
The Electric Prunes,
Oblivians,
Yaz,
Dual Sessions,
DJ Sneak,
Iggy Pop,
Joensuu 1685,
The Fall,
Yellowson,
Pole,
The New Christs,
Alison Limerick,
The Trojans,
Black Sheep,
The Walker Brothers,
Rakim,
Mad Mike,
Television,
Minor Threat,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Clear Light,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Monks,
Jandek,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Divine Comedy,
Camouflage,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sight & Sound,
8 Eyed Spy,
Franke,
Smog,
Joy Division,
Trumans Water,
Swell Maps,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.