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 Vietnam and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 Todd Rundgren to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Eve St. Jones,
Kerrie Biddell,
Colin Newman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
a-ha,
Index,
Fear,
Barrington Levy,
The Moody Blues,
The Real Kids,
The Leaves,
Dave Gahan,
Young Marble Giants,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Oblivians,
Tom Boy,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Sonics,
the Germs,
Peter and Kerry,
Joe Finger,
The Black Dice,
Section 25,
Panda Bear,
Idris Muhammad,
Nik Kershaw,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bluetip,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Royal Trux,
The Zeros,
Tubeway Army,
Fad Gadget,
In Retrospect,
The Doobie Brothers,
Robert Görl,
The Index,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Joy Division,
Connie Case,
Joensuu 1685,
John Lydon,
Audionom,
Sun Ra,
Surgeon,
Kerri Chandler,
The Neon Judgement,
Zapp,
The Barracudas,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Axelrod,
Icehouse,
James White and The Blacks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Radiohead,
The Buckinghams,
Traffic Nightmare,
ABC,
Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin.
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.