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 Paraguay and from Lagos.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Jawbox to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Eurythmics,
The Monochrome Set,
Fat Boys,
Avey Tare,
Scan 7,
Minnie Riperton,
The Buckinghams,
Ultravox,
L. Decosne,
Lyres,
La Düsseldorf,
Livin' Joy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Das Ding,
Minor Threat,
The Leaves,
Lightning Bolt,
Scott Walker,
Wally Richardson,
Gabor Szabo,
Wire,
LL Cool J,
Robert Görl,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nick Fraelich,
DJ Sneak,
Pulsallama,
Ludus,
Thompson Twins,
Jandek,
Flipper,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Mantronix,
Shuggie Otis,
Aswad,
Maurizio,
The Cowsills,
The Walker Brothers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Colin Newman,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Star Department,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eric Dolphy,
Darondo,
A Certain Ratio,
Rapeman,
Reuben Wilson,
The Techniques,
Thee Headcoats,
Alton Ellis,
Loose Ends,
The Cramps,
Shoche,
Bluetip,
The Gun Club,
Nils Olav,
Cluster,
Animal Collective,
The Toasters,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.