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 Kyrgyzstan and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Scrapy to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Mr. Review tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo 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 an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Danielle Patucci,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rites of Spring,
Brass Construction,
China Crisis,
Cymande,
Unrelated Segments,
Zero Boys,
Charles Mingus,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Joy Division,
The Kinks,
Tropical Tobacco,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sparks,
Sam Rivers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Litter,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Amon Düül,
Glenn Branca,
Lungfish,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
MC5,
Yazoo,
The United States of America,
Tim Buckley,
Nico,
The Victims,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pole,
Wasted Youth,
T.S.O.L.,
David Axelrod,
Electric Prunes,
Fluxion,
These Immortal Souls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nils Olav,
Drexciya,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Suicide,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Quadrant,
Magazine,
Derrick May,
Moss Icon,
Parry Music,
Funkadelic,
Anthony Braxton,
The Blues Magoos,
Harmonia,
June of 44,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Slits,
Hoover,
Donny Hathaway,
Soft Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
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.