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 Togo and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Model 500 to the punk 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Don Cherry,
Technova,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
La Düsseldorf,
Fela Kuti,
Average White Band,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Todd Rundgren,
Carl Craig,
Kenny Larkin,
Black Sheep,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Trumans Water,
Smog,
Kerri Chandler,
Yazoo,
Reagan Youth,
Sparks,
Isaac Hayes,
Neil Young,
Fugazi,
Mr. Review,
Essential Logic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Stockholm Monsters,
Zapp,
Y Pants,
Audionom,
Barbara Tucker,
Icehouse,
The Zeros,
MDC,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joensuu 1685,
Pulsallama,
Tommy Roe,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pole,
Stetsasonic,
The Modern Lovers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Arthur Verocai,
the Slits,
Bootsy Collins,
Dead Boys,
Deadbeat,
Bluetip,
Boogie Down Productions,
Zero Boys,
Magma,
Steve Hackett,
Faust,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Residents,
Crash Course in Science,
Urselle,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.