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 Marshall Islands and from London.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Flipper to the funk 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Icehouse,
The Barracudas,
kango's stein massive,
The Searchers,
MC5,
Jandek,
Graham Central Station,
Tomorrow,
The Victims,
Parry Music,
Basic Channel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sandy B,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sex Pistols,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Circle Jerks,
Outsiders,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pantaleimon,
Adolescents,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Suburban Knight,
Judy Mowatt,
The United States of America,
Tom Boy,
Camouflage,
A Certain Ratio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Barrington Levy,
Barry Ungar,
Negative Approach,
Ten City,
Zero Boys,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Walker Brothers,
Sam Rivers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eric Dolphy,
Fluxion,
Robert Görl,
Suicide,
Symarip,
Chrome,
The Moody Blues,
The Neon Judgement,
Essential Logic,
Nirvana,
DNA,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eli Mardock,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Red Krayola,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ludus,
Simply Red,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
China Crisis,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.