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 Moldova and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator 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 Fear to the techno 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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Henry Cow,
Lucky Dragons,
La Düsseldorf,
The Young Rascals,
Fela Kuti,
Chris Corsano,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Con Funk Shun,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Jerry's Kids,
Alice Coltrane,
David McCallum,
Sixth Finger,
Amazonics,
Aswad,
Motorama,
AZ,
Marine Girls,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Au Pairs,
Alton Ellis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Amon Düül II,
The Gap Band,
Roy Ayers,
Anthony Braxton,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Maleditus Sound,
Tres Demented,
cv313,
R.M.O.,
Rekid,
Sällskapet,
Radiohead,
Ornette Coleman,
Marvin Gaye,
The Durutti Column,
The Monochrome Set,
Roger Hodgson,
Eden Ahbez,
Echospace,
Sonny Sharrock,
Idris Muhammad,
Scan 7,
The Dirtbombs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Unwound,
Unrelated Segments,
Fort Wilson Riot,
In Retrospect,
Soft Machine,
Drexciya,
Leonard Cohen,
The Grass Roots,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.