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 Sudan and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 güiro 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 The Pop Group to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Raincoats,
Peter & Gordon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sun Ra,
DJ Sneak,
The Misunderstood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Simply Red,
Brand Nubian,
Yazoo,
The Cowsills,
These Immortal Souls,
Avey Tare,
Gang Green,
Byron Stingily,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nation of Ulysses,
Icehouse,
Quantec,
F. McDonald,
T. Rex,
Funkadelic,
Blancmange,
Jacques Brel,
Gang of Four,
Barrington Levy,
Amon Düül II,
Q and Not U,
Inner City,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Buckinghams,
Kerrie Biddell,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tubeway Army,
Tim Buckley,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Vogues,
Banda Bassotti,
AZ,
Rekid,
ABBA,
Arthur Verocai,
The Evens,
Fear,
Arcadia,
The Seeds,
Harmonia,
Television Personalities,
Skaos,
the Sonics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Residents,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Soft Cell,
The Tremeloes,
The Music Machine,
The Busters,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.