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 Seychelles and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sonic Youth to the electroclash 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Rod Modell,
Harpers Bizarre,
Man Eating Sloth,
Boogie Down Productions,
Warsaw,
Von Mondo,
Absolute Body Control,
The Moody Blues,
Kas Product,
Circle Jerks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sun City Girls,
The Divine Comedy,
Pantaleimon,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Slave,
Sexual Harrassment,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jawbox,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monochrome Set,
Barbara Tucker,
Second Layer,
Kenny Larkin,
Delta 5,
Roxette,
Lightning Bolt,
New Age Steppers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scrapy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rosa Yemen,
Judy Mowatt,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hot Snakes,
Toni Rubio,
ABBA,
Yaz,
Bootsy Collins,
Rotary Connection,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Gap Band,
John Cale,
Ultra Naté,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Five Americans,
Gang Starr,
Kayak,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Slick Rick,
Marcia Griffiths,
Newcleus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marshall Jefferson,
Soft Machine,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
T.S.O.L.,
The Music Machine,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.