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 Nepal and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Peter and Kerry to the crunk 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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Junior Murvin,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kenny Larkin,
Nirvana,
These Immortal Souls,
Ice-T,
Subhumans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Erykah Badu,
Minny Pops,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Sonics,
Visage,
The Busters,
cv313,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mo-Dettes,
The Standells,
Shuggie Otis,
Avey Tare,
Basic Channel,
Terrestrial Tones,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Barracudas,
Fatback Band,
Technova,
Jawbox,
Average White Band,
Dave Gahan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joey Negro,
Big Daddy Kane,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
PIL,
Agent Orange,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Hashim,
Flipper,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fela Kuti,
The Sound,
Popol Vuh,
Lungfish,
The Names,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nas,
Ronnie Foster,
Brand Nubian,
The Knickerbockers,
The Happenings,
The Offenders,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Roy Ayers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Camberwell Now,
Morten Harket,
The Kinks,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.