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 Bulgaria and from Manila.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s 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 Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Joensuu 1685,
Robert Hood,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Chris & Cosey,
Quadrant,
Radiopuhelimet,
K-Klass,
Anakelly,
Zapp,
Scion,
The Trojans,
Carl Craig,
Susan Cadogan,
DJ Style,
Bill Near,
John Lydon,
Graham Central Station,
Guru Guru,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Kinks,
the Fania All-Stars,
David McCallum,
Excepter,
Girls At Our Best!,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
a-ha,
Bang On A Can,
Porter Ricks,
Motorama,
China Crisis,
Nick Fraelich,
The Detroit Cobras,
Livin' Joy,
The Fuzztones,
Alphaville,
Masters at Work,
Hardrive,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kas Product,
Main Source,
Liliput,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
D'Angelo,
H. Thieme,
Absolute Body Control,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Roxette,
Nik Kershaw,
Junior Murvin,
Heaven 17,
Aloha Tigers,
La Düsseldorf,
The Fugs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Patti Smith,
Von Mondo,
The Busters,
Wings,
Eli Mardock,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.