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 Suriname and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Hashim to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
EPMD,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Half Japanese,
Marine Girls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Metal Thangz,
Buzzcocks,
Dave Gahan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barclay James Harvest,
kango's stein massive,
Sällskapet,
Arab on Radar,
David Bowie,
Cluster,
Ossler,
Royal Trux,
Aaron Thompson,
Hardrive,
Lindisfarne,
Davy DMX,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Parry Music,
Brass Construction,
LL Cool J,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pantaleimon,
China Crisis,
the Soft Cell,
Index,
Urselle,
Judy Mowatt,
DNA,
the Slits,
The Misunderstood,
Delon & Dalcan,
Howard Jones,
Wings,
Charles Mingus,
Second Layer,
Sam Rivers,
The Beau Brummels,
cv313,
Spandau Ballet,
Minor Threat,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Funky Four + One,
Soulsonic Force,
Ice-T,
Trumans Water,
The Angels of Light,
DJ Style,
Hot Snakes,
Joey Negro,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.