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 Tanzania and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar 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 Harpers Bizarre to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Pierre Henry,
This Heat,
Mantronix,
Saccharine Trust,
The Gladiators,
The Sonics,
Eve St. Jones,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gang Starr,
Soul Sonic Force,
Make Up,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kayak,
EPMD,
Wolf Eyes,
Kenny Larkin,
Model 500,
Bluetip,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Lydon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Blancmange,
The Motions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Newcleus,
Deepchord,
the Germs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Funkadelic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sex Pistols,
Amon Düül,
Barrington Levy,
Section 25,
X-102,
Todd Rundgren,
Gil Scott Heron,
The American Breed,
Arthur Verocai,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boogie Down Productions,
Spandau Ballet,
Glenn Branca,
Simply Red,
Scan 7,
The Zeros,
Groovy Waters,
The Blues Magoos,
Tommy Roe,
Harmonia,
Johnny Osbourne,
Traffic Nightmare,
Man Parrish,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rod Modell,
Crash Course in Science,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Can,
The Dirtbombs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Knickerbockers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.