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 Malawi and from Milan.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Subhumans to the crunk 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Bobby Womack,
Eli Mardock,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Essential Logic,
The Young Rascals,
The Last Poets,
The Gories,
Flash Fearless,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Offenders,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Smog,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eurythmics,
Crispy Ambulance,
kango's stein massive,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bootsy Collins,
Gichy Dan,
Bang On A Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Brick,
Lucky Dragons,
OOIOO,
Cal Tjader,
Stereo Dub,
Pantytec,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erykah Badu,
a-ha,
Y Pants,
Guru Guru,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Model 500,
Duran Duran,
Harry Pussy,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lower 48,
The Beau Brummels,
Jeru the Damaja,
X-Ray Spex,
The Neon Judgement,
Don Cherry,
The United States of America,
Oblivians,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
cv313,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Sonics,
Anakelly,
Roxette,
Davy DMX,
The Pop Group,
Skarface,
La Düsseldorf,
Alphaville,
H. Thieme,
Excepter,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.