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 Iran and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Monochrome Set to the funk 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sparks,
The Move,
Donald Byrd,
Grauzone,
Gichy Dan,
Skarface,
The Doobie Brothers,
June of 44,
Sixth Finger,
MDC,
Leonard Cohen,
The Fugs,
Bill Wells,
Magma,
The Mighty Diamonds,
X-102,
Sarah Menescal,
Soft Cell,
Stockholm Monsters,
Iggy Pop,
Audionom,
The Trojans,
Barrington Levy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cymande,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ronan,
Animal Collective,
Michelle Simonal,
Babytalk,
The Standells,
Roxy Music,
Andrew Hill,
Lebanon Hanover,
Minnie Riperton,
Joey Negro,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
MC5,
Mantronix,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Brothers Johnson,
Camberwell Now,
Average White Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lungfish,
Moebius,
The Monochrome Set,
The Last Poets,
Drexciya,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sex Pistols,
Jawbox,
Pet Shop Boys,
Livin' Joy,
Tommy Roe,
Morten Harket,
Scott Walker,
The Pop Group,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.