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 Comoros and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the funk 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mandrill,
Lucky Dragons,
Brass Construction,
David Bowie,
John Holt,
Rod Modell,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Circle Jerks,
World's Most,
Morten Harket,
Rhythm & Sound,
Swell Maps,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bill Near,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Arthur Verocai,
Cybotron,
The Fuzztones,
Gong,
Lightning Bolt,
Infiniti,
Severed Heads,
L. Decosne,
The Stooges,
Sight & Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jerry's Kids,
David McCallum,
Absolute Body Control,
Lyres,
The Cure,
Average White Band,
The Busters,
Hoover,
Kenny Larkin,
The Last Poets,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tropical Tobacco,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Vladislav Delay,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Symarip,
The Seeds,
Saccharine Trust,
Audionom,
The Detroit Cobras,
Graham Central Station,
Scientists,
Sparks,
Isaac Hayes,
Eric Dolphy,
Pylon,
AZ,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tomorrow,
Heaven 17,
Fugazi,
The Dead C,
Swans,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.