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 Colombia and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 snare 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 Isaac Hayes to the dance 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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rapeman,
Graham Central Station,
The Martian,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Electric Prunes,
Bronski Beat,
The Music Machine,
Basic Channel,
Unwound,
Cybotron,
Bill Near,
Todd Terry,
Iggy Pop,
Harmonia,
Bluetip,
Kaleidoscope,
Chris & Cosey,
Minny Pops,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fear,
Pantytec,
Neu!,
Stockholm Monsters,
Icehouse,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Buzzcocks,
Funkadelic,
Flash Fearless,
Babytalk,
Rufus Thomas,
Make Up,
The Names,
D'Angelo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The New Christs,
Lou Reed,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Can,
The Residents,
The Zeros,
The Litter,
Rhythm & Sound,
Y Pants,
Marine Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pole,
The Beau Brummels,
The Sonics,
June of 44,
H. Thieme,
Matthew Halsall,
Suburban Knight,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Livin' Joy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scion,
The Sound,
Colin Newman,
Qualms, Qualms, Qualms, Qualms.
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.