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 Swaziland and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Gang Gang Dance to the disco 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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
The Standells,
Kas Product,
Absolute Body Control,
Sight & Sound,
the Sonics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
A Certain Ratio,
Zero Boys,
Surgeon,
The Fall,
Das Ding,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cal Tjader,
Joe Finger,
Stiv Bators,
Drexciya,
Leonard Cohen,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
Gil Scott Heron,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tim Buckley,
Rakim,
Barclay James Harvest,
Shoche,
Nils Olav,
Letta Mbulu,
OOIOO,
Nico,
John Holt,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
10cc,
Drive Like Jehu,
the Soft Cell,
Amon Düül II,
The Modern Lovers,
Radiohead,
Moby Grape,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Television,
Easy Going,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dennis Brown,
Moebius,
Delta 5,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The J.B.'s,
Rufus Thomas,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Music Machine,
Joy Division,
Public Enemy,
Harry Pussy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fluxion,
Kenny Larkin,
The Star Department,
Altered Images,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.