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 Malta and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Brass Construction 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Jandek,
Adolescents,
Flash Fearless,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Procol Harum,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scrapy,
Lou Reed,
Sound Behaviour,
Marc Almond,
Bush Tetras,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bang On A Can,
Bronski Beat,
Roger Hodgson,
The Blues Magoos,
Motorama,
The Last Poets,
Black Bananas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Germs,
Andrew Hill,
Outsiders,
Ken Boothe,
JFA,
Marshall Jefferson,
Mark Hollis,
The Walker Brothers,
Scion,
Fatback Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Unwound,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Skarface,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Das Ding,
Fat Boys,
Surgeon,
H. Thieme,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
These Immortal Souls,
The Toasters,
X-101,
Moebius,
Country Teasers,
Sun Ra,
Bootsy Collins,
Chris Corsano,
Saccharine Trust,
Suicide,
Jacques Brel,
Hasil Adkins,
Reuben Wilson,
The Smoke,
Q and Not U,
Kenny Larkin,
Mars,
The Beau Brummels,
Drive Like Jehu,
Monks,
Hashim,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.