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 Somalia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Portland.
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 theremin 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 Pantaleimon to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
a-ha,
The Happenings,
John Cale,
Erykah Badu,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ice-T,
World's Most,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Simply Red,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bill Near,
The Last Poets,
Aaron Thompson,
Essential Logic,
The Toasters,
The Zeros,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Visage,
Tommy Roe,
The Martian,
Animal Collective,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
These Immortal Souls,
Kurtis Blow,
The Selecter,
Aswad,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sam Rivers,
E-Dancer,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sight & Sound,
Marshall Jefferson,
Michelle Simonal,
Johnny Osbourne,
June of 44,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tears for Fears,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lalann,
Liliput,
Black Sheep,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rites of Spring,
Camberwell Now,
Anakelly,
Danielle Patucci,
Y Pants,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Franke,
Cecil Taylor,
Mandrill,
Wolf Eyes,
FM Einheit,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.