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 Malta 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the grunge 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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Skarface,
Mantronix,
Marcia Griffiths,
Agitation Free,
Peter & Gordon,
T. Rex,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Darondo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Tres Demented,
Toni Rubio,
Wasted Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sällskapet,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Masters at Work,
Deadbeat,
Amon Düül,
Kenny Larkin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Connie Case,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bluetip,
Amazonics,
Robert Wyatt,
Duran Duran,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Wake,
Wings,
Tubeway Army,
Monks,
Piero Umiliani,
The Angels of Light,
Circle Jerks,
Fluxion,
Rufus Thomas,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Symarip,
Gichy Dan,
Basic Channel,
Sparks,
New Order,
Swans,
Pantaleimon,
The Detroit Cobras,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cowsills,
Electric Prunes,
Clear Light,
Jimmy McGriff,
Neil Young,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kevin Saunderson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soft Cell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Arab on Radar,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.