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 Cuba and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Index to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Frankie Knuckles tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
The Evens,
Quantec,
Jandek,
48th St. Collective,
Fluxion,
Joe Finger,
Eurythmics,
Joy Division,
Quando Quango,
Ponytail,
The Residents,
Joe Smooth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ornette Coleman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Monolake,
The Young Rascals,
Eden Ahbez,
Joensuu 1685,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dennis Brown,
Eve St. Jones,
Bootsy Collins,
Bush Tetras,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Clear Light,
The Buckinghams,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
June Days,
Ossler,
Sam Rivers,
John Coltrane,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
MC5,
Drive Like Jehu,
Stereo Dub,
Talk Talk,
Easy Going,
the Germs,
Parry Music,
Anthony Braxton,
Reagan Youth,
DJ Sneak,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Johnny Clarke,
the Swans,
Neu!,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Isaac Hayes,
Tubeway Army,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Association,
Lindisfarne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Y Pants,
Donald Byrd,
Masters at Work,
Index, Index, Index, Index.
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.