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 Iceland and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Index to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
The Stooges,
Blancmange,
Lyres,
Pere Ubu,
Eric Dolphy,
Massinfluence,
Leonard Cohen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Television,
The Angels of Light,
Soft Cell,
The Moleskins,
The Sound,
Das Ding,
The Smiths,
Dawn Penn,
Ralphi Rosario,
Smog,
Dual Sessions,
Radio Birdman,
Lee Hazlewood,
Black Moon,
the Slits,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Swans,
Skarface,
Bobby Hutcherson,
In Retrospect,
Bobby Byrd,
Pylon,
Babytalk,
June of 44,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ronan,
The Fuzztones,
Intrusion,
The Gun Club,
Bob Dylan,
Organ,
Fat Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Sugar Minott,
Traffic Nightmare,
Oneida,
Accadde A,
Crime,
The United States of America,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eurythmics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Real Kids,
Saccharine Trust,
The Fall,
Young Marble Giants,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Schoolly D,
Kerri Chandler,
Audionom,
The Toasters,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.