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 Canada and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 The New Christs to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
MC5,
Andrew Hill,
Q65,
Isaac Hayes,
Public Image Ltd.,
PIL,
Ralphi Rosario,
OOIOO,
This Heat,
Interpol,
Second Layer,
Nas,
Negative Approach,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mandrill,
The Real Kids,
The Vogues,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Happenings,
Swell Maps,
Scrapy,
Eli Mardock,
Moebius,
The Fire Engines,
Sugar Minott,
China Crisis,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cramps,
Mark Hollis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxette,
Beasts of Bourbon,
a-ha,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Blossom Toes,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Victims,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Von Mondo,
Accadde A,
Peter & Gordon,
Byron Stingily,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mantronix,
Maleditus Sound,
The Evens,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Swans,
the Fania All-Stars,
X-101,
Sunsets and Hearts,
FM Einheit,
Sarah Menescal,
Roy Ayers,
Warsaw,
Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen.
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.