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 Niger and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 guitar 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 ABC to the rock 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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ohio Players,
Bluetip,
Zapp,
Letta Mbulu,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mars,
Surgeon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Television,
Babytalk,
Young Marble Giants,
Gastr Del Sol,
Janne Schatter,
Wally Richardson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joensuu 1685,
Magazine,
Sister Nancy,
The Skatalites,
Sparks,
Marine Girls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lightning Bolt,
Colin Newman,
Kas Product,
The Monochrome Set,
R.M.O.,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
D'Angelo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hasil Adkins,
Ludus,
Monks,
Stetsasonic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Subhumans,
The Five Americans,
Brothers Johnson,
Robert Hood,
Juan Atkins,
Black Bananas,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wasted Youth,
Unwound,
Graham Central Station,
DJ Style,
Boredoms,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Glambeats Corp.,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dennis Brown,
Leonard Cohen,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pagans,
The Human League,
Lou Christie,
The Monks,
Stiv Bators,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.