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 Swaziland and from Hong Kong.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 CMW to the grunge 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Excepter,
Albert Ayler,
Connie Case,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Massinfluence,
E-Dancer,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Schoolly D,
Barclay James Harvest,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kas Product,
The Smiths,
Half Japanese,
The Seeds,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jeff Mills,
The Dirtbombs,
Von Mondo,
Sam Rivers,
Vainqueur,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gregory Isaacs,
Banda Bassotti,
Deadbeat,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Residents,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Marine Girls,
Electric Prunes,
Sarah Menescal,
Peter and Kerry,
Inner City,
The Buckinghams,
CMW,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Human League,
Curtis Mayfield,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Fugazi,
Nick Fraelich,
The Count Five,
Eve St. Jones,
Popol Vuh,
Cheater Slicks,
Camberwell Now,
The Fall,
John Lydon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Yaz,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Blackbyrds,
Graham Central Station,
Kerrie Biddell,
Das Ding,
The Cure,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.