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 Vanuatu and from Glasgow.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Joe Finger to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Eurythmics,
Vladislav Delay,
Roxette,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rapeman,
Zapp,
Y Pants,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Techniques,
Unrelated Segments,
Roger Hodgson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
China Crisis,
Easy Going,
Bootsy Collins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Velvet Underground,
Wally Richardson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cecil Taylor,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mars,
The Cosmic Jokers,
OOIOO,
Sexual Harrassment,
Albert Ayler,
Neu!,
The Toasters,
CMW,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
R.M.O.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Neil Young,
One Last Wish,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kerrie Biddell,
Charles Mingus,
Mary Jane Girls,
Niagra,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Graham Central Station,
Maleditus Sound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fugazi,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
D'Angelo,
the Slits,
Barrington Levy,
Japan,
The New Christs,
Junior Murvin,
Surgeon,
The Zeros,
The Young Rascals,
a-ha,
The Black Dice,
Monolake,
Eddi Front,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.