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 Taiwan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Radiohead to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Quantec,
Soulsonic Force,
Flash Fearless,
Max Romeo,
E-Dancer,
The Smiths,
Pagans,
Tomorrow,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Carl Craig,
June of 44,
the Slits,
Pulsallama,
The Leaves,
Stetsasonic,
The Searchers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bad Manners,
the Association,
the Germs,
Peter and Kerry,
X-101,
Bobby Sherman,
Underground Resistance,
Gastr Del Sol,
Barclay James Harvest,
Black Moon,
David Axelrod,
Ultimate Spinach,
Electric Prunes,
Harmonia,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fat Boys,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Wake,
Popol Vuh,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Steve Hackett,
Cheater Slicks,
Los Fastidios,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sällskapet,
Lou Christie,
Bobby Womack,
Joensuu 1685,
Gichy Dan,
Angry Samoans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Terry Callier,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Adolescents,
Camberwell Now,
A Certain Ratio,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rapeman,
The Skatalites,
Easy Going,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.