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 Burundi and from Accra.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Alarm Clocks to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Y Pants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Essential Logic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sparks,
Lungfish,
Audionom,
Albert Ayler,
Technova,
James White and The Blacks,
The Neon Judgement,
Livin' Joy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Young Marble Giants,
Blake Baxter,
Neil Young,
The Slackers,
The Birthday Party,
New Order,
Fela Kuti,
The Gun Club,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Sheep,
Funkadelic,
Bad Manners,
Khruangbin,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Y Pants,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Five Americans,
The Velvet Underground,
The Electric Prunes,
Byron Stingily,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Swans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camberwell Now,
Eric B and Rakim,
In Retrospect,
Steve Hackett,
Gang Green,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sight & Sound,
Sister Nancy,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Flesh Eaters,
Nas,
Sonic Youth,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Move,
Q and Not U,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jacob Miller,
KRS-One,
Iggy Pop,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Quando Quango,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Star Department,
Laurel Aitken,
Hardrive,
Freddie Wadling,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.