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 Equatorial Guinea and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Iggy Pop to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Marine Girls,
Livin' Joy,
Negative Approach,
Cheater Slicks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pussy Galore,
Flamin' Groovies,
David Axelrod,
Nick Fraelich,
Bauhaus,
Can,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Alison Limerick,
Duran Duran,
Jawbox,
Kerri Chandler,
Bootsy Collins,
Stiv Bators,
Aloha Tigers,
Susan Cadogan,
Anakelly,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Evens,
Parry Music,
DNA,
Eric Dolphy,
The Velvet Underground,
a-ha,
Cymande,
The American Breed,
The Saints,
Essential Logic,
Boredoms,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rufus Thomas,
Faraquet,
Clear Light,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tres Demented,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
JFA,
Rakim,
The Beau Brummels,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rosa Yemen,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pantytec,
The Electric Prunes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nils Olav,
Eve St. Jones,
Radio Birdman,
Derrick Morgan,
Intrusion,
The Gories,
Swell Maps,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.