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 Israel and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Animal Collective to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Man Parrish,
Symarip,
In Retrospect,
Jawbox,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rotary Connection,
Goldenarms,
Easy Going,
Average White Band,
The Buckinghams,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Gladiators,
Agent Orange,
Arab on Radar,
Basic Channel,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Wasted Youth,
Wire,
Lungfish,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Yaz,
Heaven 17,
Khruangbin,
Royal Trux,
Minor Threat,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Supertramp,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lucky Dragons,
Ohio Players,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Patti Smith,
Radiopuhelimet,
Unwound,
Scott Walker,
The Birthday Party,
Yusef Lateef,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mark Hollis,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Darondo,
Second Layer,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Cure,
June Days,
Eric Copeland,
B.T. Express,
The Martian,
CMW,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Stooges,
The Victims,
Sarah Menescal,
DJ Sneak,
Chris Corsano,
Joe Finger,
Radio Birdman,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Blake Baxter,
Little Man,
Tom Boy,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.