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 Montenegro and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 theremin 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 Lakeside 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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Icehouse,
The Misunderstood,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Neil Young,
Radiohead,
Lakeside,
Unrelated Segments,
Patti Smith,
Toni Rubio,
Robert Wyatt,
The Real Kids,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Faraquet,
Lightning Bolt,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gang Gang Dance,
R.M.O.,
Roger Hodgson,
Dead Boys,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lyres,
Laurel Aitken,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kayak,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blues Magoos,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Fania All-Stars,
Visage,
Technova,
Rites of Spring,
Pole,
The Cowsills,
Tim Buckley,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barry Ungar,
Ponytail,
Eric Dolphy,
Dave Gahan,
Ornette Coleman,
Sällskapet,
Alphaville,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Camberwell Now,
Eddi Front,
Wasted Youth,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Flash Fearless,
Saccharine Trust,
Sight & Sound,
the Human League,
The Litter,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pantaleimon,
Flipper,
Bluetip,
Banda Bassotti,
Alison Limerick,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cameo,
Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding.
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.