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 Uruguay and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 rhodes 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 Index to the dance 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Jandek,
The Red Krayola,
Intrusion,
Scrapy,
Anakelly,
Todd Terry,
Fat Boys,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
New Order,
The Cramps,
In Retrospect,
Maurizio,
Ronan,
JFA,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
F. McDonald,
Soul II Soul,
Tears for Fears,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sam Rivers,
the Germs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
E-Dancer,
Khruangbin,
Bronski Beat,
Hashim,
Bill Wells,
The J.B.'s,
The Doors,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Au Pairs,
Pole,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Cecil Taylor,
Pagans,
Nick Fraelich,
The New Christs,
Arthur Verocai,
Connie Case,
Flash Fearless,
Massinfluence,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
EPMD,
Marcia Griffiths,
Harmonia,
Jimmy McGriff,
Carl Craig,
Altered Images,
Rotary Connection,
The Fall,
Henry Cow,
The Velvet Underground,
Erykah Badu,
Maleditus Sound,
Vainqueur,
Brass Construction,
The Techniques,
Pere Ubu,
Anthony Braxton,
Gerry Rafferty,
Arab on Radar,
Thompson Twins,
Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics.
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.