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 Liechtenstein and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Lucky Dragons to the dance 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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Ice-T,
Vainqueur,
Michelle Simonal,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dual Sessions,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joey Negro,
Eddi Front,
Derrick May,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jacques Brel,
Alton Ellis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Harmonia,
Neil Young,
Todd Terry,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Khruangbin,
Fat Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nils Olav,
Connie Case,
Mad Mike,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Easy Going,
Rapeman,
Marc Almond,
Mr. Review,
Theoretical Girls,
Wasted Youth,
The Durutti Column,
Spoonie Gee,
Rod Modell,
Thee Headcoats,
Ponytail,
Technova,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fad Gadget,
The Fall,
Television Personalities,
Scan 7,
K-Klass,
Ralphi Rosario,
Urselle,
Black Sheep,
Cecil Taylor,
Freddie Wadling,
Kenny Larkin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crime,
Lou Reed,
Harpers Bizarre,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.