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 Benin and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes 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 E-Dancer to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stetsasonic 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Harmonia,
Lou Christie,
The Skatalites,
Deadbeat,
Moby Grape,
Crash Course in Science,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Human League,
Ronnie Foster,
Peter and Kerry,
Young Marble Giants,
The Black Dice,
Tropical Tobacco,
Black Flag,
Hot Snakes,
Heaven 17,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fat Boys,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jandek,
New Age Steppers,
Wally Richardson,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Golliwogs,
Hoover,
The Knickerbockers,
John Cale,
Isaac Hayes,
Archie Shepp,
Matthew Halsall,
Schoolly D,
Colin Newman,
Kerrie Biddell,
Janne Schatter,
T.S.O.L.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jacob Miller,
Alison Limerick,
Mr. Review,
Marvin Gaye,
Yaz,
Michelle Simonal,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gang of Four,
Flash Fearless,
New York Dolls,
Simply Red,
Al Stewart,
Warren Ellis,
Liliput,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Drive Like Jehu,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Slick Rick,
Flamin' Groovies,
Q65,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.