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 Tonga and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 rhodes 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 Scratch Acid to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 '50s 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 Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Glenn Branca,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Divine Comedy,
Mad Mike,
MDC,
Crispy Ambulance,
Massinfluence,
Thompson Twins,
Chris Corsano,
The Evens,
This Heat,
Aural Exciters,
The Residents,
Aloha Tigers,
Pierre Henry,
Grauzone,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Accadde A,
Fear,
Flash Fearless,
Sällskapet,
Pantytec,
Goldenarms,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joe Finger,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scratch Acid,
Zapp,
Big Daddy Kane,
Terry Callier,
Lungfish,
Michelle Simonal,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Subhumans,
Avey Tare,
The Birthday Party,
Oneida,
Boz Scaggs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Fluxion,
PIL,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jeff Mills,
The Skatalites,
Siglo XX,
The Leaves,
ABBA,
Can,
The Beau Brummels,
Dawn Penn,
The Fire Engines,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
These Immortal Souls,
Connie Case,
Fugazi,
Trumans Water,
48th St. Collective,
Second Layer,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.