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 the UAE and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer 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 Sisters of Mercy to the jazz 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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Derrick May,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Aural Exciters,
The Techniques,
Vainqueur,
Rekid,
The Barracudas,
Yellowson,
the Bar-Kays,
The Gap Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Skatalites,
Khruangbin,
Swell Maps,
Traffic Nightmare,
Crash Course in Science,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash,
A Certain Ratio,
Jeru the Damaja,
Technova,
David McCallum,
Siglo XX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Thee Headcoats,
The Seeds,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Darondo,
Magazine,
Mad Mike,
Alice Coltrane,
Index,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gang Starr,
Marc Almond,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camouflage,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Glambeats Corp.,
Warren Ellis,
Todd Terry,
Ten City,
Dorothy Ashby,
Aaron Thompson,
June Days,
Tres Demented,
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hasil Adkins,
The Smiths,
Sex Pistols,
Delta 5,
Loose Ends,
John Lydon,
Nils Olav,
Wire,
Metal Thangz,
Stetsasonic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.