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 Georgia and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 arpeggiator 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 Archie Shepp to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Lakeside,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Sonics,
Minutemen,
Skarface,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Judy Mowatt,
Jacques Brel,
Max Romeo,
Country Teasers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gang Starr,
Kayak,
Average White Band,
The Searchers,
The New Christs,
The Cure,
X-101,
Kenny Larkin,
Aaron Thompson,
Hasil Adkins,
cv313,
Das Ding,
Kevin Saunderson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Symarip,
The Barracudas,
The Slits,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Boz Scaggs,
Alison Limerick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Slits,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Association,
Bauhaus,
Oneida,
Cal Tjader,
Alice Coltrane,
DJ Sneak,
Q and Not U,
Wolf Eyes,
Bluetip,
The Martian,
Jacob Miller,
Yusef Lateef,
Johnny Clarke,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Barbara Tucker,
The Count Five,
Blancmange,
June of 44,
Outsiders,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bobby Byrd,
ABC,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.