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 Germany and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 synthesizer 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 DJ Style to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Swell Maps,
Tim Buckley,
Marvin Gaye,
Toni Rubio,
the Fania All-Stars,
Slave,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Public Enemy,
Rufus Thomas,
Basic Channel,
Fad Gadget,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
FM Einheit,
James White and The Blacks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Das Ding,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gichy Dan,
Aural Exciters,
Darondo,
June of 44,
Delta 5,
The Saints,
Inner City,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Star Department,
E-Dancer,
Chris Corsano,
The Flesh Eaters,
AZ,
Derrick May,
Peter and Kerry,
Gastr Del Sol,
David Axelrod,
Roxy Music,
Mr. Review,
Bootsy Collins,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Toasters,
The Martian,
Byron Stingily,
Harmonia,
Dark Day,
Second Layer,
Bluetip,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ultra Naté,
Bauhaus,
Crime,
The Walker Brothers,
Yaz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Andrew Hill,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Lydon,
Marmalade,
John Cale,
OOIOO,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.