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 Moldova and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet 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 John Foxx to the crunk 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Monochrome Set,
Pylon,
Terry Callier,
cv313,
Idris Muhammad,
The Saints,
The Grass Roots,
Dawn Penn,
Davy DMX,
H. Thieme,
Yusef Lateef,
Quantec,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Funky Four + One,
Echospace,
Barrington Levy,
Glenn Branca,
Flipper,
Rosa Yemen,
Amon Düül II,
Nation of Ulysses,
Procol Harum,
Ituana,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Severed Heads,
In Retrospect,
Alice Coltrane,
Avey Tare,
Iggy Pop,
Tom Boy,
Nirvana,
Fluxion,
The Velvet Underground,
Siglo XX,
Crash Course in Science,
Amazonics,
Slave,
Mary Jane Girls,
Graham Central Station,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ultimate Spinach,
Chrome,
Lou Christie,
The Trojans,
Joyce Sims,
Pantaleimon,
Section 25,
Soulsonic Force,
Unrelated Segments,
PIL,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cal Tjader,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Alarm Clocks,
This Heat,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.