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 Serbia and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Index to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Matthew Halsall,
Model 500,
The Offenders,
Guru Guru,
The Stooges,
Susan Cadogan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eurythmics,
The Trojans,
Letta Mbulu,
Public Enemy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Blackbyrds,
Roy Ayers,
Brass Construction,
Popol Vuh,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Wire,
The Happenings,
DJ Sneak,
T.S.O.L.,
Dead Boys,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Associates,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bad Manners,
MC5,
Lebanon Hanover,
Organ,
The Velvet Underground,
Section 25,
Pantytec,
Marine Girls,
This Heat,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kerri Chandler,
UT,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
K-Klass,
Groovy Waters,
The Zeros,
Q and Not U,
Johnny Clarke,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Youth Brigade,
Soulsonic Force,
The Music Machine,
Ralphi Rosario,
Black Flag,
John Foxx,
Henry Cow,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Victims,
Lightning Bolt,
The Move,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.