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 Slovakia and from Milan.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the jazz 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Funkadelic,
Symarip,
Lower 48,
New York Dolls,
Juan Atkins,
X-Ray Spex,
The Black Dice,
Archie Shepp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hasil Adkins,
Cheater Slicks,
Janne Schatter,
Mars,
The Trojans,
Stetsasonic,
Qualms,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
D'Angelo,
The Birthday Party,
Make Up,
New Age Steppers,
Skriet,
The Grass Roots,
Nils Olav,
Funky Four + One,
Black Moon,
Cybotron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Leaves,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bootsy Collins,
Arcadia,
Pussy Galore,
Technova,
Soulsonic Force,
Urselle,
Excepter,
Kool Moe Dee,
Blossom Toes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Hashim,
Minnie Riperton,
Matthew Bourne,
The Busters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Graham Central Station,
Bizarre Inc.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Colin Newman,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Fire Engines,
Stereo Dub,
Freddie Wadling,
Kevin Saunderson,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Electric Prunes,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.