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 Portugal and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sun Ra to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sex Pistols. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Boredoms,
Accadde A,
Terrestrial Tones,
LL Cool J,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jawbox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Donny Hathaway,
Minny Pops,
Visage,
The Golliwogs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Patti Smith,
Althea and Donna,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Suicide,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Procol Harum,
Susan Cadogan,
Slick Rick,
The Victims,
David McCallum,
The J.B.'s,
Angry Samoans,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sandy B,
Rapeman,
Jacob Miller,
Aural Exciters,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Drive Like Jehu,
John Cale,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Nirvana,
Babytalk,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tommy Roe,
Section 25,
Bobby Womack,
Pulsallama,
Dave Gahan,
The Red Krayola,
Echospace,
Vainqueur,
Deepchord,
Derrick May,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Beau Brummels,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Technova,
David Axelrod,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Chrome,
Metal Thangz,
Junior Murvin,
Adolescents,
the Soft Cell,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.