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 Poland and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Shoche to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
Dave Gahan,
Sam Rivers,
Amon Düül,
One Last Wish,
Adolescents,
the Association,
La Düsseldorf,
Oneida,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Alice Coltrane,
The Doors,
Leonard Cohen,
Spoonie Gee,
Bluetip,
Grauzone,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crash Course in Science,
Public Enemy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Zero Boys,
Brick,
Peter and Kerry,
Joey Negro,
Average White Band,
The Standells,
Colin Newman,
Harmonia,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Roxette,
Sexual Harrassment,
Q and Not U,
cv313,
John Coltrane,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Kinks,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Normal,
Sarah Menescal,
Graham Central Station,
Barclay James Harvest,
Joy Division,
Marine Girls,
The Monochrome Set,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Raincoats,
The Fuzztones,
Derrick May,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scan 7,
The Remains,
Flamin' Groovies,
Q65,
Procol Harum,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Velvet Underground,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sällskapet,
Quadrant,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.