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 Ecuador and from Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Funkadelic to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Erykah Badu,
Kaleidoscope,
U.S. Maple,
Harpers Bizarre,
Drive Like Jehu,
Negative Approach,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Buckinghams,
Lyres,
Aaron Thompson,
MC5,
Peter & Gordon,
Livin' Joy,
Terry Callier,
Rotary Connection,
The Raincoats,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Newcleus,
Joe Smooth,
Lungfish,
Guru Guru,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alton Ellis,
Excepter,
Ice-T,
10cc,
Minor Threat,
Tim Buckley,
The Cramps,
The Skatalites,
Idris Muhammad,
Kevin Saunderson,
Funky Four + One,
Curtis Mayfield,
Junior Murvin,
Black Flag,
Sonic Youth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Accadde A,
Pagans,
Fat Boys,
Theoretical Girls,
OOIOO,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
John Holt,
Sixth Finger,
Fear,
the Soft Cell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
T. Rex,
Roxette,
Rites of Spring,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Brothers Johnson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Happenings,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
New York Dolls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Cheater Slicks,
Stiv Bators,
Popol Vuh,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.