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 Honduras and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Pole to the rap 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Parrish,
Niagra,
Masters at Work,
Peter and Kerry,
Outsiders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
Gang Green,
Laurel Aitken,
Circle Jerks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Porter Ricks,
New Age Steppers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marmalade,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Henry Cow,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gories,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Franke,
James White and The Blacks,
Maleditus Sound,
Magma,
The Index,
DJ Style,
Au Pairs,
Animal Collective,
Kevin Saunderson,
Liliput,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Isaac Hayes,
Lightning Bolt,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang Starr,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Glenn Branca,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
FM Einheit,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jeff Lynne,
Zapp,
Ultravox,
T. Rex,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Carl Craig,
The Pop Group,
Yusef Lateef,
The Cure,
Peter & Gordon,
Rotary Connection,
K-Klass,
Bobby Womack,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The New Christs,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Techniques,
Michelle Simonal,
Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum.
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.