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 Panama and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Supertramp to the rap 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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
ABBA,
Gerry Rafferty,
Deadbeat,
The Associates,
Eden Ahbez,
Main Source,
Stereo Dub,
Minutemen,
New York Dolls,
Harmonia,
Excepter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Moody Blues,
Stetsasonic,
Avey Tare,
Animal Collective,
The Moleskins,
The Doors,
Jacob Miller,
Theoretical Girls,
Brick,
Amon Düül II,
Duran Duran,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kenny Larkin,
the Fania All-Stars,
Anakelly,
The Velvet Underground,
Gong,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Spandau Ballet,
Moby Grape,
Negative Approach,
KRS-One,
Flash Fearless,
Carl Craig,
Oblivians,
The Knickerbockers,
Reagan Youth,
Rotary Connection,
Groovy Waters,
Fad Gadget,
These Immortal Souls,
Warren Ellis,
Morten Harket,
Sarah Menescal,
Derrick Morgan,
Kerri Chandler,
The Black Dice,
F. McDonald,
Technova,
Mark Hollis,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Sheep,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jeff Lynne,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.