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 Vietnam 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 punk 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
The Real Kids,
8 Eyed Spy,
Robert Hood,
The Dirtbombs,
Eve St. Jones,
Lakeside,
F. McDonald,
Mark Hollis,
Black Moon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Theoretical Girls,
Mr. Review,
New York Dolls,
Youth Brigade,
Rufus Thomas,
The Gap Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
Deepchord,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ohio Players,
The Moleskins,
Alice Coltrane,
Michelle Simonal,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Zero Boys,
T.S.O.L.,
The Saints,
Leonard Cohen,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joe Smooth,
Guru Guru,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bob Dylan,
Juan Atkins,
The Busters,
The Detroit Cobras,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Reagan Youth,
The Dead C,
Blossom Toes,
Wasted Youth,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Music Machine,
the Association,
Albert Ayler,
Technova,
Absolute Body Control,
Black Bananas,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bill Wells,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Parry Music,
Nik Kershaw,
the Germs,
Scion,
Steve Hackett,
Colin Newman,
The Mighty Diamonds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.