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 Cape Verde and from Lille.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Brass Construction 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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dirtbombs,
Stetsasonic,
Joensuu 1685,
Khruangbin,
Scott Walker,
Sparks,
kango's stein massive,
Soulsonic Force,
The Searchers,
Heaven 17,
Eden Ahbez,
Lower 48,
Sister Nancy,
Quantec,
Bizarre Inc.,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ornette Coleman,
Aural Exciters,
Warsaw,
Faust,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Modern Lovers,
Niagra,
Peter and Kerry,
10cc,
Jerry's Kids,
Underground Resistance,
New Order,
DJ Style,
Shoche,
Connie Case,
Iggy Pop,
Ituana,
Arab on Radar,
Jandek,
Groovy Waters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Walker Brothers,
Scan 7,
Suburban Knight,
Ash Ra Tempel,
June of 44,
Yazoo,
Lindisfarne,
Tubeway Army,
The Buckinghams,
Black Moon,
The Knickerbockers,
Ice-T,
Fear,
Judy Mowatt,
Eric Dolphy,
Eric B and Rakim,
AZ,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Golliwogs,
The Blackbyrds,
Rakim,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Cramps,
Scientists,
Dual Sessions,
Althea and Donna,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.