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 Peru and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jawbox to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
The Toasters,
the Sonics,
Moby Grape,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Wake,
Suburban Knight,
Urselle,
B.T. Express,
Joey Negro,
Drexciya,
Iggy Pop,
Hasil Adkins,
F. McDonald,
Flipper,
Reagan Youth,
Monks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
ABBA,
Radio Birdman,
Schoolly D,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hot Snakes,
Electric Prunes,
The Index,
Chris Corsano,
Tres Demented,
The Martian,
Leonard Cohen,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Gladiators,
Junior Murvin,
Suicide,
Von Mondo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scott Walker,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dark Day,
Zapp,
Saccharine Trust,
The Slackers,
Cluster,
T. Rex,
The Residents,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Joy Division,
The Doobie Brothers,
Deadbeat,
The Real Kids,
Susan Cadogan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Aswad,
Circle Jerks,
Ultra Naté,
Jandek,
The Trojans,
Davy DMX,
Harry Pussy,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.