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 Australia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 güiro 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 Slave to the disco 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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Black Sheep,
the Germs,
Nirvana,
The Gun Club,
The Busters,
Flamin' Groovies,
Radiohead,
Panda Bear,
The Sound,
The Grass Roots,
Eddi Front,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jeff Mills,
Sandy B,
Circle Jerks,
Steve Hackett,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sun Ra,
Mission of Burma,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Audionom,
Eli Mardock,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chrome,
Tubeway Army,
The Smoke,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Techniques,
Absolute Body Control,
The Barracudas,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Technova,
Gang Gang Dance,
Harry Pussy,
Grey Daturas,
R.M.O.,
Fat Boys,
Scion,
Sexual Harrassment,
Susan Cadogan,
Byron Stingily,
The Angels of Light,
Eden Ahbez,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Adolescents,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Hill,
Nico,
Bobby Byrd,
Scott Walker,
Dead Boys,
The Moody Blues,
New Order,
Theoretical Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mr. Review,
Crooked Eye,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lalann,
The Martian,
Nas,
Ronan,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.