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 Lithuania and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 K-Klass to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
the Germs,
Aural Exciters,
Jacob Miller,
Davy DMX,
Neil Young,
Bizarre Inc.,
kango's stein massive,
The Last Poets,
Altered Images,
Heaven 17,
Curtis Mayfield,
D'Angelo,
K-Klass,
Laurel Aitken,
Youth Brigade,
Al Stewart,
Porter Ricks,
Funkadelic,
Bang On A Can,
Amon Düül II,
Bobby Byrd,
Yellowson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Public Enemy,
Cal Tjader,
DJ Style,
Mandrill,
Kas Product,
Lightning Bolt,
The Associates,
Man Parrish,
The Standells,
Avey Tare,
L. Decosne,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Terry Callier,
Stockholm Monsters,
Supertramp,
The Selecter,
Chris & Cosey,
Matthew Halsall,
Swans,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fad Gadget,
10cc,
Leonard Cohen,
Mantronix,
Juan Atkins,
the Normal,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Funky Four + One,
Fear,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Oneida,
Albert Ayler,
John Foxx,
It's A Beautiful Day,
ABBA,
Suburban Knight,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
David McCallum,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.