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 Nicaragua and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 mellotron 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
A Certain Ratio,
Albert Ayler,
Bobby Sherman,
Intrusion,
Jerry's Kids,
Soft Cell,
Erasure,
Patti Smith,
Little Man,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Buckinghams,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mandrill,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Cowsills,
Goldenarms,
Inner City,
Can,
Jawbox,
DJ Sneak,
Ice-T,
The Red Krayola,
Spoonie Gee,
Tropical Tobacco,
Warren Ellis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Loose Ends,
Johnny Clarke,
Stereo Dub,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skriet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marc Almond,
Lou Reed,
David Axelrod,
Lakeside,
Whodini,
The Golliwogs,
Maurizio,
Reagan Youth,
Siglo XX,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Soft Cell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Skatalites,
Sonic Youth,
Bronski Beat,
Piero Umiliani,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Aloha Tigers,
Nas,
Godley & Creme,
Schoolly D,
X-101,
Saccharine Trust,
Eddi Front,
The Human League,
Oneida,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.