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 Kiribati 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 chamberlin 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 Saccharine Trust to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
AZ,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Magma,
Symarip,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Howard Jones,
R.M.O.,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
In Retrospect,
Delon & Dalcan,
Grey Daturas,
Marvin Gaye,
The Electric Prunes,
Lower 48,
Can,
The Toasters,
Joey Negro,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fear,
The Angels of Light,
Chris Corsano,
Loose Ends,
Avey Tare,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Anakelly,
David Bowie,
The Dave Clark Five,
Von Mondo,
Matthew Halsall,
Absolute Body Control,
Black Bananas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Germs,
Schoolly D,
Danielle Patucci,
Sound Behaviour,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Funky Four + One,
The Human League,
Rod Modell,
Don Cherry,
the Sonics,
Average White Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Oneida,
Brick,
The Red Krayola,
Iggy Pop,
Pole,
Arcadia,
Animal Collective,
Young Marble Giants,
Grauzone,
Minny Pops,
Rufus Thomas,
Infiniti,
kango's stein massive,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.