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 Mauritania and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the 808 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 Dorothy Ashby 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Duran Duran,
Scan 7,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pulsallama,
Archie Shepp,
Symarip,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Danielle Patucci,
Robert Hood,
Deakin,
Shuggie Otis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Delta 5,
Whodini,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Fortunes,
The Zeros,
One Last Wish,
Tubeway Army,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Victims,
Interpol,
Morten Harket,
the Fania All-Stars,
Q and Not U,
Lalo Schifrin,
Shoche,
Pierre Henry,
Quantec,
Pere Ubu,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Anthony Braxton,
Cal Tjader,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
FM Einheit,
Black Flag,
Brand Nubian,
Gong,
The Human League,
The Blackbyrds,
John Cale,
Royal Trux,
Radiopuhelimet,
Scientists,
Easy Going,
Oblivians,
Model 500,
Rotary Connection,
Sparks,
Supertramp,
Joe Finger,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Glambeats Corp.,
Glenn Branca,
Masters at Work,
Underground Resistance,
Roy Ayers,
The Velvet Underground,
Gabor Szabo,
the Association,
Quadrant,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.