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 Fiji and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 snare 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 FM Einheit to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Flash Fearless,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lucky Dragons,
The Saints,
A Flock of Seagulls,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ten City,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scan 7,
Janne Schatter,
Stockholm Monsters,
Hashim,
Erasure,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Q65,
Joyce Sims,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Quantec,
Banda Bassotti,
The Modern Lovers,
The Divine Comedy,
Bizarre Inc.,
Franke,
Inner City,
Motorama,
The Smoke,
Spandau Ballet,
The Residents,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Los Fastidios,
Nils Olav,
Juan Atkins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Fatback Band,
Little Man,
The Velvet Underground,
Warren Ellis,
Grey Daturas,
F. McDonald,
Sparks,
Pantaleimon,
Rufus Thomas,
Jimmy McGriff,
Marvin Gaye,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Loose Ends,
Supertramp,
Lebanon Hanover,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Royal Trux,
The Invisible,
Joe Finger,
Drive Like Jehu,
Donald Byrd,
Gabor Szabo,
The Fugs,
The Fuzztones,
Boredoms,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.