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 Togo and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bush Tetras to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Sex Pistols tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Jeru the Damaja,
JFA,
Roger Hodgson,
Marvin Gaye,
Pantaleimon,
Groovy Waters,
Duran Duran,
John Holt,
Porter Ricks,
FM Einheit,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Little Man,
Franke,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lalann,
The Mojo Men,
Joyce Sims,
Half Japanese,
Stereo Dub,
Silicon Teens,
Roy Ayers,
This Heat,
Bad Manners,
Black Moon,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Martian,
Sun Ra,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cecil Taylor,
The Vogues,
Audionom,
Iggy Pop,
Rekid,
Agitation Free,
Ken Boothe,
Letta Mbulu,
The Monochrome Set,
Funky Four + One,
Shuggie Otis,
The Cure,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Aaron Thompson,
Quadrant,
Derrick May,
the Association,
Frankie Knuckles,
Donny Hathaway,
The Gap Band,
Howard Jones,
Agent Orange,
Laurel Aitken,
Camouflage,
Davy DMX,
Piero Umiliani,
Jawbox,
Johnny Clarke,
Kenny Larkin,
Bush Tetras,
Alison Limerick,
Television,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.