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 Romania and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 snare 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 Nils Olav to the grunge 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Davy DMX,
Circle Jerks,
Slave,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Arthur Verocai,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rakim,
The Martian,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Agitation Free,
Black Flag,
Soulsonic Force,
Drive Like Jehu,
Agent Orange,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pussy Galore,
Public Image Ltd.,
Radiohead,
Average White Band,
Accadde A,
Minutemen,
KRS-One,
The Durutti Column,
Ohio Players,
Bang On A Can,
Make Up,
Godley & Creme,
Steve Hackett,
Visage,
Alison Limerick,
Zero Boys,
The Happenings,
Erykah Badu,
The Velvet Underground,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Move,
Theoretical Girls,
Index,
Popol Vuh,
Grey Daturas,
Carl Craig,
China Crisis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
One Last Wish,
Unwound,
Absolute Body Control,
Bootsy Collins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wire,
Joyce Sims,
T. Rex,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Buzzcocks,
Bobby Sherman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lightning Bolt,
Con Funk Shun,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.