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 Norway and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Davy DMX to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Jerry's Kids,
CMW,
R.M.O.,
Reuben Wilson,
A Certain Ratio,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minnie Riperton,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Delta 5,
Arab on Radar,
Icehouse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Big Daddy Kane,
Minny Pops,
cv313,
Rufus Thomas,
Jimmy McGriff,
Warren Ellis,
Royal Trux,
Harpers Bizarre,
Michelle Simonal,
Ten City,
Janne Schatter,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Absolute Body Control,
Faust,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Darondo,
U.S. Maple,
Banda Bassotti,
The Neon Judgement,
Steve Hackett,
Roy Ayers,
Agent Orange,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Human League,
Severed Heads,
Sarah Menescal,
Cymande,
Ituana,
Davy DMX,
Fluxion,
Buzzcocks,
The Toasters,
Ohio Players,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Names,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camouflage,
Max Romeo,
Sex Pistols,
Panda Bear,
Nils Olav,
Bluetip,
Easy Going,
Eddi Front,
The Seeds,
Funkadelic,
Pierre Henry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.