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 Sweden and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Delon & Dalcan to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Barbara Tucker,
Eden Ahbez,
Robert Görl,
The Kinks,
Niagra,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alison Limerick,
Von Mondo,
Suicide,
Intrusion,
Flamin' Groovies,
Delta 5,
Janne Schatter,
Public Enemy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Reuben Wilson,
Desert Stars,
Anthony Braxton,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Blancmange,
Easy Going,
Outsiders,
Althea and Donna,
Organ,
Scratch Acid,
Thee Headcoats,
Erykah Badu,
PIL,
Roxy Music,
Cheater Slicks,
Crispy Ambulance,
Matthew Bourne,
the Sonics,
Pagans,
Section 25,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
10cc,
D'Angelo,
Blake Baxter,
Susan Cadogan,
Michelle Simonal,
Cal Tjader,
Tubeway Army,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Chris Corsano,
Amazonics,
Don Cherry,
Soft Cell,
Grey Daturas,
Piero Umiliani,
La Düsseldorf,
Danielle Patucci,
Loose Ends,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mad Mike,
Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen.
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.