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 Laos and from Calgary.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the dance 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
L. Decosne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Slits,
Stereo Dub,
Andrew Hill,
Intrusion,
Bobby Sherman,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pylon,
Severed Heads,
E-Dancer,
kango's stein massive,
Graham Central Station,
Swans,
The Techniques,
Soft Cell,
Sixth Finger,
Steve Hackett,
Half Japanese,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Barclay James Harvest,
Blancmange,
Marine Girls,
T.S.O.L.,
The Monochrome Set,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Standells,
Gil Scott Heron,
Archie Shepp,
Flamin' Groovies,
Charles Mingus,
The Martian,
Loose Ends,
Connie Case,
Ornette Coleman,
FM Einheit,
Glenn Branca,
Colin Newman,
Siglo XX,
Maurizio,
Skarface,
Cluster,
The Divine Comedy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Outsiders,
Pussy Galore,
Lindisfarne,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alphaville,
The Knickerbockers,
Drexciya,
Davy DMX,
Joyce Sims,
La Düsseldorf,
Index,
Sun City Girls,
Althea and Donna,
Au Pairs,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.