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 Romania and from Mumbai.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 arpeggiator 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 The Electric Prunes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Pole,
Panda Bear,
Anakelly,
Sarah Menescal,
The Velvet Underground,
In Retrospect,
the Sonics,
FM Einheit,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bush Tetras,
China Crisis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Skriet,
Minnie Riperton,
Supertramp,
Blossom Toes,
John Coltrane,
Joe Smooth,
Lower 48,
Iggy Pop,
Cameo,
The Trojans,
Fad Gadget,
Organ,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cure,
Anthony Braxton,
The Move,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Sound,
Mr. Review,
Scott Walker,
Cluster,
Robert Hood,
Pharoah Sanders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Altered Images,
Fifty Foot Hose,
David McCallum,
The Black Dice,
The Gories,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Blues Magoos,
The Grass Roots,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
ABBA,
Janne Schatter,
Mandrill,
The Fuzztones,
Black Moon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tomorrow,
The Dirtbombs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soul Sonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Fraelich,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.