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 San Marino and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Glambeats Corp.,
Boz Scaggs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bizarre Inc.,
June Days,
Quantec,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang of Four,
David Axelrod,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sandy B,
Pharoah Sanders,
Drexciya,
Sex Pistols,
The Fortunes,
Sparks,
Drive Like Jehu,
This Heat,
Pylon,
Sun Ra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cluster,
The Golliwogs,
Gong,
The Misunderstood,
Popol Vuh,
Bootsy Collins,
Stetsasonic,
Jandek,
Marc Almond,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Fuzztones,
Jerry's Kids,
Q65,
Delta 5,
Leonard Cohen,
Aaron Thompson,
Rekid,
The Modern Lovers,
Mr. Review,
Scratch Acid,
Josef K,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Fall,
Goldenarms,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Freddie Wadling,
Das Ding,
Jesper Dahlback,
Laurel Aitken,
Absolute Body Control,
Sister Nancy,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Pop Group,
The Music Machine,
Brick,
Liliput,
The Fugs,
Glenn Branca,
8 Eyed Spy,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.