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 Taiwan and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 marimba 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 Eden Ahbez to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Basic Channel,
Yaz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scan 7,
Bauhaus,
Quadrant,
Eurythmics,
Sarah Menescal,
Davy DMX,
The Mummies,
the Bar-Kays,
Scion,
Flash Fearless,
Nico,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lyres,
Sun City Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Sunsets and Hearts,
ABBA,
Eden Ahbez,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lower 48,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Mad Mike,
Talk Talk,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mantronix,
Lalann,
Kenny Larkin,
Glenn Branca,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Delta 5,
The Knickerbockers,
The Fall,
Graham Central Station,
D'Angelo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rekid,
Judy Mowatt,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Black Dice,
The Searchers,
The Wake,
Roger Hodgson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Hot Snakes,
John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Yellowson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Anthony Braxton,
Lindisfarne,
Echospace,
Barrington Levy,
Juan Atkins,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.