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 Taiwan and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Panda Bear to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
The Music Machine,
Hardrive,
The Sonics,
Camberwell Now,
The Searchers,
Marine Girls,
Hashim,
Howard Jones,
Mary Jane Girls,
Matthew Halsall,
Sonic Youth,
Nils Olav,
The Invisible,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cameo,
Idris Muhammad,
EPMD,
Delta 5,
Mark Hollis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Grauzone,
Y Pants,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minutemen,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Todd Rundgren,
Grey Daturas,
Sight & Sound,
Niagra,
The Fall,
Guru Guru,
Mandrill,
the Germs,
Joey Negro,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Soft Cell,
the Swans,
Pet Shop Boys,
New York Dolls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
David Axelrod,
Roxy Music,
Swans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Anthony Braxton,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Theoretical Girls,
Bobby Byrd,
Tres Demented,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pussy Galore,
Wasted Youth,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Marc Almond,
Groovy Waters,
June Days,
Wally Richardson,
Arcadia,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Deadbeat,
Amon Düül II,
Monolake,
The Sound,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.