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 Grenada and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the jazz 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
The Dave Clark Five,
Maleditus Sound,
The Moody Blues,
The Sonics,
The Real Kids,
Audionom,
Donny Hathaway,
Khruangbin,
Carl Craig,
Graham Central Station,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bobby Womack,
Gregory Isaacs,
Surgeon,
Terry Callier,
The Smoke,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joyce Sims,
DNA,
KRS-One,
Ten City,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Iggy Pop,
Minor Threat,
Danielle Patucci,
Yaz,
A Certain Ratio,
Arab on Radar,
Chris Corsano,
The Gun Club,
The Durutti Column,
Black Bananas,
Nils Olav,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jeff Mills,
the Sonics,
Man Parrish,
Brand Nubian,
Bluetip,
Jacob Miller,
Mark Hollis,
Rekid,
The Grass Roots,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Shadows of Knight,
Funky Four + One,
Royal Trux,
Tomorrow,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Absolute Body Control,
Nirvana,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Young Rascals,
Tears for Fears,
Kas Product,
Alphaville,
Bronski Beat,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Heaven 17,
Davy DMX,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.