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 Mali and from Seoul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Faust to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav 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?
Scrapy,
MC5,
The Mummies,
The Litter,
Sugar Minott,
Ronnie Foster,
The Move,
Second Layer,
a-ha,
Bill Wells,
Minny Pops,
OOIOO,
Alton Ellis,
Oneida,
Joy Division,
Lower 48,
The Remains,
Groovy Waters,
Janne Schatter,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Skaos,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Toni Rubio,
Skarface,
Brass Construction,
The Trojans,
La Düsseldorf,
Model 500,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare,
Fugazi,
Arcadia,
Barbara Tucker,
Laurel Aitken,
Minor Threat,
Sound Behaviour,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
AZ,
Boredoms,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobby Womack,
Deadbeat,
Wasted Youth,
Urselle,
The American Breed,
Little Man,
Dead Boys,
The Human League,
Wolf Eyes,
the Human League,
Chrome,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Dark Day,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Josef K,
Barrington Levy,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Electric Prunes,
Bootsy Collins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.