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 Guatemala and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 marimba 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 the Bar-Kays to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Steve Hackett record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
New York Dolls,
Leonard Cohen,
The Happenings,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Glenn Branca,
Isaac Hayes,
Boz Scaggs,
World's Most,
Thompson Twins,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Liliput,
Hasil Adkins,
Hoover,
Carl Craig,
The Buckinghams,
Al Stewart,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Skriet,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joe Finger,
Crispian St. Peters,
Arthur Verocai,
Yusef Lateef,
Negative Approach,
Ronnie Foster,
Echospace,
Cluster,
Graham Central Station,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tim Buckley,
Technova,
David McCallum,
Don Cherry,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Sound,
Glambeats Corp.,
Chris Corsano,
Scrapy,
Whodini,
Bill Wells,
FM Einheit,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Vogues,
Amon Düül II,
The Kinks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moby Grape,
Rotary Connection,
Khruangbin,
Ornette Coleman,
Robert Wyatt,
Royal Trux,
Grauzone,
Essential Logic,
The Music Machine,
E-Dancer,
Lindisfarne,
Bronski Beat,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.