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 Dominican Republic and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 James White and The Blacks to the electroclash 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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Roxy Music,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Last Poets,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Mojo Men,
the Germs,
Average White Band,
Pussy Galore,
Zapp,
Schoolly D,
Nation of Ulysses,
Arthur Verocai,
The Fortunes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pharoah Sanders,
Talk Talk,
Kerri Chandler,
Radiohead,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Althea and Donna,
Tubeway Army,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Half Japanese,
The Zeros,
Stetsasonic,
Flipper,
The Cure,
Joy Division,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Echospace,
Excepter,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Five Americans,
The Electric Prunes,
Qualms,
The Pop Group,
Jacques Brel,
Charles Mingus,
Lindisfarne,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Seeds,
Technova,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Essential Logic,
Tommy Roe,
Marvin Gaye,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Minor Threat,
Siglo XX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chrome,
The Knickerbockers,
The Associates,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bobby Sherman,
DNA,
Bobby Byrd,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.