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 Niger and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fatback Band to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Agitation Free,
Cal Tjader,
T.S.O.L.,
The American Breed,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
John Holt,
Fat Boys,
The Invisible,
The Raincoats,
Sun City Girls,
Scrapy,
Black Sheep,
Pagans,
Oneida,
Eric Dolphy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Misunderstood,
Cybotron,
Arcadia,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tears for Fears,
Fugazi,
Reuben Wilson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Black Pus,
The Move,
Ronan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
La Düsseldorf,
Wally Richardson,
Eddi Front,
Jawbox,
Warren Ellis,
John Foxx,
OOIOO,
Wasted Youth,
Hoover,
Pet Shop Boys,
Public Image Ltd.,
Blancmange,
New Order,
Glambeats Corp.,
John Lydon,
Eric Copeland,
Toni Rubio,
Boz Scaggs,
Zero Boys,
John Coltrane,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eve St. Jones,
Faraquet,
Vladislav Delay,
New York Dolls,
Derrick May,
Eden Ahbez,
Grey Daturas,
Icehouse,
The Neon Judgement,
Vainqueur,
Funkadelic,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.