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 Malta 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Magma to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Prince Buster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Animal Collective,
The Happenings,
Depeche Mode,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Suicide,
EPMD,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Michelle Simonal,
The Count Five,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Motions,
Fluxion,
Public Enemy,
Royal Trux,
U.S. Maple,
Alton Ellis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Monks,
Maleditus Sound,
Shoche,
Ice-T,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Hashim,
The Walker Brothers,
Flash Fearless,
Bad Manners,
Black Bananas,
Hardrive,
Fear,
Ronnie Foster,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scott Walker,
The Grass Roots,
Delta 5,
the Slits,
Freddie Wadling,
Eurythmics,
The Mummies,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
F. McDonald,
Lebanon Hanover,
Amazonics,
Yellowson,
Godley & Creme,
Wings,
Kas Product,
Ornette Coleman,
Basic Channel,
Quadrant,
Erasure,
Essential Logic,
Kurtis Blow,
The Dirtbombs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.