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 Cameroon and from Columbus.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Bad Manners to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Busters,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Khruangbin,
Vainqueur,
Graham Central Station,
Scott Walker,
Yusef Lateef,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tres Demented,
Henry Cow,
Kool Moe Dee,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Minnie Riperton,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Chris Corsano,
Pierre Henry,
June of 44,
Marcia Griffiths,
Flash Fearless,
The Detroit Cobras,
Half Japanese,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pantaleimon,
The Gun Club,
Tom Boy,
Grauzone,
Loose Ends,
Heaven 17,
Sex Pistols,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Chrome,
Arcadia,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Angels of Light,
The Offenders,
Aaron Thompson,
Audionom,
Robert Wyatt,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Siglo XX,
Pole,
Aswad,
Monks,
Lightning Bolt,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Niagra,
Surgeon,
Massinfluence,
The Golliwogs,
Main Source,
The Human League,
Arthur Verocai,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nas,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Erasure,
Drive Like Jehu,
Joe Smooth,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Au Pairs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.