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 Italy and from London.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Negative Approach to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 the Germs. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Q and Not U,
Flipper,
Alphaville,
Royal Trux,
Public Image Ltd.,
Vladislav Delay,
Neil Young,
Can,
the Fania All-Stars,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tropical Tobacco,
June Days,
Ossler,
Marshall Jefferson,
Funky Four + One,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ponytail,
Accadde A,
The Five Americans,
Aloha Tigers,
Derrick Morgan,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Saints,
Skaos,
Animal Collective,
The Selecter,
The Gladiators,
Cal Tjader,
Traffic Nightmare,
Throbbing Gristle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ultimate Spinach,
June of 44,
Erykah Badu,
Pere Ubu,
Tubeway Army,
Groovy Waters,
The Raincoats,
Bill Wells,
Black Sheep,
the Germs,
Glenn Branca,
Parry Music,
Althea and Donna,
Electric Prunes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jerry's Kids,
Aural Exciters,
Scientists,
Symarip,
The Cowsills,
Trumans Water,
The Fugs,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Swans,
Angry Samoans,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Young Rascals,
Depeche Mode,
Jesper Dahlback,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.