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 Kuwait and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nirvana to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Cheater Slicks,
Icehouse,
Nils Olav,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sparks,
The Knickerbockers,
Carl Craig,
The Kinks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Electric Prunes,
Faust,
X-Ray Spex,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Can,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Anakelly,
Stereo Dub,
It's A Beautiful Day,
PIL,
Wally Richardson,
Animal Collective,
Black Bananas,
Chris & Cosey,
Lightning Bolt,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Henry Cow,
Gang Green,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kerri Chandler,
Lou Reed,
Terry Callier,
The Litter,
Maleditus Sound,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bad Manners,
10cc,
Second Layer,
Cecil Taylor,
The Raincoats,
Mark Hollis,
John Lydon,
DJ Sneak,
Tubeway Army,
the Germs,
Magma,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Harmonia,
Negative Approach,
Connie Case,
Laurel Aitken,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Main Source,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Monochrome Set,
Minor Threat,
Boredoms,
This Heat,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Vainqueur,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.