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 Uruguay and from Bologna.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sight & Sound to the disco 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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Wings,
The Move,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Public Enemy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Glambeats Corp.,
the Soft Cell,
10cc,
Michelle Simonal,
Gong,
kango's stein massive,
Quando Quango,
Marmalade,
Boredoms,
Faust,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Andrew Hill,
Avey Tare,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jandek,
Electric Prunes,
Hoover,
DNA,
Black Bananas,
China Crisis,
Ken Boothe,
Gichy Dan,
One Last Wish,
The Human League,
Radio Birdman,
Ralphi Rosario,
Carl Craig,
Pagans,
Danielle Patucci,
The Toasters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Matthew Halsall,
The J.B.'s,
Soft Machine,
John Foxx,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Althea and Donna,
Scan 7,
Hot Snakes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Morten Harket,
U.S. Maple,
Moby Grape,
Lucky Dragons,
DJ Sneak,
Icehouse,
Cal Tjader,
The Monks,
The Music Machine,
Howard Jones,
Cameo,
Pylon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.