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 Turkmenistan and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 EPMD to the electroclash 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
Eddi Front,
Pylon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Porter Ricks,
Althea and Donna,
Jacob Miller,
Country Teasers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Agitation Free,
Main Source,
John Cale,
Jimmy McGriff,
Thompson Twins,
The Moody Blues,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
U.S. Maple,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minnie Riperton,
The Birthday Party,
Bauhaus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
David Bowie,
Andrew Hill,
Bronski Beat,
Visage,
Sugar Minott,
Suburban Knight,
Stockholm Monsters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ice-T,
Model 500,
The Invisible,
Japan,
Skriet,
The New Christs,
ABC,
Amazonics,
Altered Images,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dark Day,
Lucky Dragons,
The J.B.'s,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
R.M.O.,
Shoche,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Barracudas,
Man Eating Sloth,
Quantec,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Desert Stars,
Massinfluence,
B.T. Express,
Eric Dolphy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Theoretical Girls,
Grandmaster Flash,
Reuben Wilson,
Grey Daturas,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.