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 Brazil and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Gong 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 Sisters of Mercy. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Vogues,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Bar-Kays,
Au Pairs,
Reuben Wilson,
Suicide,
Electric Prunes,
The Electric Prunes,
CMW,
OOIOO,
Quantec,
Junior Murvin,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Don Cherry,
The Doors,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alison Limerick,
Fad Gadget,
Lightning Bolt,
The Searchers,
Crooked Eye,
Massinfluence,
Howard Jones,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Guru Guru,
Bob Dylan,
Carl Craig,
Moby Grape,
Steve Hackett,
Technova,
Can,
Yazoo,
The Fire Engines,
Matthew Halsall,
Lalo Schifrin,
John Holt,
Gichy Dan,
Marmalade,
Silicon Teens,
Cybotron,
Cameo,
Eli Mardock,
The Monks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Supertramp,
Gabor Szabo,
Scientists,
Y Pants,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Wally Richardson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Flesh Eaters,
Minor Threat,
Blossom Toes,
Fatback Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Niagra,
Swans,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.