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 Ecuador and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 X-102 to the jazz 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Joe Smooth,
Icehouse,
kango's stein massive,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Peter and Kerry,
E-Dancer,
Mandrill,
Erasure,
Accadde A,
Banda Bassotti,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sällskapet,
Amon Düül II,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tim Buckley,
ABC,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Neon Judgement,
Depeche Mode,
Unwound,
Can,
AZ,
Nils Olav,
Jerry's Kids,
Davy DMX,
Kurtis Blow,
Jeru the Damaja,
Warren Ellis,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bauhaus,
Animal Collective,
The Moody Blues,
Hot Snakes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Khruangbin,
Con Funk Shun,
The New Christs,
Chris Corsano,
Ken Boothe,
Gang Starr,
The Golliwogs,
Robert Wyatt,
Isaac Hayes,
L. Decosne,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tom Boy,
Au Pairs,
Ultra Naté,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Danielle Patucci,
The Music Machine,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Easy Going,
EPMD,
Das Ding,
Arcadia,
Bobby Sherman,
Newcleus,
DNA,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.