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 Peru and from Stockholm.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rufus Thomas to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Erykah Badu,
Soulsonic Force,
Organ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rosa Yemen,
Mantronix,
Schoolly D,
Godley & Creme,
Marvin Gaye,
Flash Fearless,
LL Cool J,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mo-Dettes,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Stetsasonic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
JFA,
The Doors,
Arthur Verocai,
The Birthday Party,
The Dead C,
KRS-One,
Mark Hollis,
Depeche Mode,
Lower 48,
Faust,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
EPMD,
Basic Channel,
The Modern Lovers,
Kenny Larkin,
The Mummies,
Wolf Eyes,
Bronski Beat,
The Martian,
The Angels of Light,
Scion,
Franke,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gang of Four,
The Offenders,
The Fugs,
Jerry's Kids,
Kaleidoscope,
Whodini,
Fatback Band,
Glambeats Corp.,
Henry Cow,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Music Machine,
Tubeway Army,
Jandek,
Swans,
Vainqueur,
The Monks,
Chrome,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.