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 Venezuela and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Magazine to the punk 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
The J.B.'s,
Urselle,
Hardrive,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Moebius,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scientists,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Japan,
Harmonia,
The Blackbyrds,
X-102,
Mantronix,
PIL,
Junior Murvin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crispy Ambulance,
Blake Baxter,
Oblivians,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soul II Soul,
Mission of Burma,
Joensuu 1685,
Ice-T,
The Offenders,
Andrew Hill,
Glenn Branca,
Eve St. Jones,
Charles Mingus,
DNA,
Essential Logic,
Gang Gang Dance,
Flash Fearless,
Desert Stars,
The Kinks,
Pantytec,
Livin' Joy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Model 500,
Rekid,
Mark Hollis,
Negative Approach,
Fat Boys,
Robert Hood,
Cecil Taylor,
Bush Tetras,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
FM Einheit,
The Golliwogs,
Spoonie Gee,
The Dave Clark Five,
Vladislav Delay,
The Divine Comedy,
Kerri Chandler,
Oneida,
Tom Boy,
Goldenarms,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.