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 New Zealand and from Toronto.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 Blake Baxter to the electroclash 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke 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 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Inner City,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bush Tetras,
Flash Fearless,
Moby Grape,
Kurtis Blow,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
These Immortal Souls,
Lalann,
Cybotron,
Smog,
Steve Hackett,
Neu!,
Graham Central Station,
T.S.O.L.,
Fad Gadget,
The Neon Judgement,
Tres Demented,
Bizarre Inc.,
James White and The Blacks,
Mark Hollis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
LL Cool J,
The Busters,
Oblivians,
Saccharine Trust,
Sandy B,
Hot Snakes,
Todd Terry,
Sister Nancy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sun City Girls,
Max Romeo,
John Cale,
a-ha,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Swell Maps,
Piero Umiliani,
Audionom,
The Wake,
Aaron Thompson,
The Stooges,
Alice Coltrane,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Das Ding,
Pole,
Porter Ricks,
Fela Kuti,
Nick Fraelich,
Eric Dolphy,
The Zeros,
Laurel Aitken,
Radiopuhelimet,
K-Klass,
Grauzone,
Half Japanese,
David Axelrod,
Ten City,
Toni Rubio,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.