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 Eritrea and from London.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Liliput to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
New Age Steppers,
Ponytail,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
ABBA,
Freddie Wadling,
Ronnie Foster,
The Victims,
Warsaw,
H. Thieme,
The Last Poets,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scion,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Quando Quango,
Goldenarms,
Zero Boys,
Subhumans,
Kenny Larkin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Judy Mowatt,
D'Angelo,
Eric Copeland,
10cc,
La Düsseldorf,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Little Man,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Selecter,
Prince Buster,
Hoover,
Minnie Riperton,
Neu!,
Zapp,
Max Romeo,
The Associates,
Donny Hathaway,
Isaac Hayes,
A Certain Ratio,
Andrew Hill,
Brothers Johnson,
Quantec,
Index,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Index,
Sun City Girls,
Pagans,
Pere Ubu,
Bang On A Can,
Ultimate Spinach,
Maurizio,
Con Funk Shun,
Das Ding,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
DNA,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.