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 Israel and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Move to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pere Ubu. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Bang On A Can,
Mantronix,
The Walker Brothers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Robert Hood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Germs,
Soft Machine,
Rotary Connection,
Minor Threat,
Max Romeo,
June of 44,
Barrington Levy,
Quantec,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jimmy McGriff,
Half Japanese,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Barracudas,
Curtis Mayfield,
Iggy Pop,
Ponytail,
Au Pairs,
Suicide,
Delta 5,
The Smoke,
Derrick Morgan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gang Gang Dance,
Barbara Tucker,
Tubeway Army,
cv313,
Funky Four + One,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gerry Rafferty,
Slave,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rufus Thomas,
Adolescents,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ituana,
Average White Band,
Los Fastidios,
Wasted Youth,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soft Cell,
LL Cool J,
Lindisfarne,
Eve St. Jones,
Todd Terry,
Banda Bassotti,
Excepter,
The Young Rascals,
Crash Course in Science,
Althea and Donna,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.