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 Slovenia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Heaven 17 to the grunge 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Pere Ubu,
Clear Light,
Half Japanese,
10cc,
Thompson Twins,
Panda Bear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Young Marble Giants,
Quantec,
Bizarre Inc.,
KRS-One,
Lakeside,
Talk Talk,
Supertramp,
Amazonics,
Infiniti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Main Source,
Black Bananas,
Basic Channel,
Outsiders,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bauhaus,
Unrelated Segments,
Agitation Free,
Lee Hazlewood,
Junior Murvin,
Minnie Riperton,
Crooked Eye,
Gastr Del Sol,
a-ha,
Rufus Thomas,
The Velvet Underground,
James White and The Blacks,
Trumans Water,
Eric Dolphy,
Dawn Penn,
Bobby Sherman,
Reuben Wilson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Chris Corsano,
Cheater Slicks,
Echospace,
The Wake,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Newcleus,
Bronski Beat,
Marine Girls,
Camberwell Now,
Oblivians,
Davy DMX,
Crime,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eurythmics,
Severed Heads,
the Slits,
The Young Rascals,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.