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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Sixth Finger to the electroclash 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 the Slits. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Cluster,
Basic Channel,
New Age Steppers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jandek,
Archie Shepp,
Bizarre Inc.,
Brothers Johnson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Cramps,
Dawn Penn,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Carl Craig,
Skriet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Amazonics,
Graham Central Station,
The Gladiators,
Neu!,
Kenny Larkin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neil Young,
Maleditus Sound,
Minor Threat,
Max Romeo,
Crooked Eye,
Avey Tare,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Technova,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Drexciya,
CMW,
The Monochrome Set,
John Cale,
Grauzone,
The Velvet Underground,
Massinfluence,
Rod Modell,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lightning Bolt,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sixth Finger,
The Fire Engines,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Johnny Clarke,
Gabor Szabo,
Radio Birdman,
Sight & Sound,
Mars,
Brick,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Reuben Wilson,
Bronski Beat,
Danielle Patucci,
John Holt,
Con Funk Shun,
Au Pairs,
Mo-Dettes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.