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 Congo and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro 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 Skarface to the rock 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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Minor Threat,
Idris Muhammad,
Lungfish,
Mandrill,
kango's stein massive,
The Associates,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
X-Ray Spex,
New Order,
Accadde A,
the Bar-Kays,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hashim,
Supertramp,
Scrapy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nick Fraelich,
Half Japanese,
The Young Rascals,
Sister Nancy,
Icehouse,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Leaves,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eric Dolphy,
Flash Fearless,
EPMD,
Y Pants,
Eric Copeland,
Neu!,
Motorama,
Marmalade,
The Gun Club,
Josef K,
The Dead C,
The Barracudas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joensuu 1685,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Visage,
Fat Boys,
The Searchers,
Bob Dylan,
Q and Not U,
Das Ding,
DJ Sneak,
The Cramps,
Deepchord,
Second Layer,
Unwound,
Bobby Womack,
Ossler,
The Modern Lovers,
Main Source,
Erykah Badu,
Tomorrow,
Altered Images,
Steve Hackett,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nas,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.