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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Monolake to the funk 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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Man Parrish,
Adolescents,
Slick Rick,
Avey Tare,
Aural Exciters,
The Cramps,
Minnie Riperton,
Gastr Del Sol,
Idris Muhammad,
MDC,
K-Klass,
Scion,
Derrick Morgan,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Flesh Eaters,
Morten Harket,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Evens,
Gabor Szabo,
The Durutti Column,
Robert Wyatt,
F. McDonald,
David Axelrod,
Andrew Hill,
Accadde A,
Scan 7,
Lou Reed,
The Pop Group,
The Vogues,
FM Einheit,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Skaos,
Blossom Toes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Minny Pops,
Young Marble Giants,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ludus,
LL Cool J,
Warren Ellis,
Ohio Players,
X-Ray Spex,
Ultravox,
X-101,
Funky Four + One,
Dawn Penn,
The Count Five,
Wolf Eyes,
Johnny Clarke,
The New Christs,
Warsaw,
Marine Girls,
The Victims,
Colin Newman,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Whodini,
Tim Buckley,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Delta 5,
the Sonics,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.