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 Bhutan and from Jakarta.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fad Gadget to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang On A Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mars,
New Age Steppers,
The Gladiators,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Happenings,
The Fugs,
Nation of Ulysses,
China Crisis,
Sällskapet,
Fluxion,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Con Funk Shun,
The Sound,
Barbara Tucker,
The Sonics,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sun City Girls,
Banda Bassotti,
Jimmy McGriff,
Animal Collective,
Erykah Badu,
Zero Boys,
Lalann,
DJ Style,
the Germs,
Bill Near,
The Smoke,
Von Mondo,
Vainqueur,
Sight & Sound,
Brand Nubian,
Kenny Larkin,
Wire,
Urselle,
Porter Ricks,
Absolute Body Control,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Bananas,
Delta 5,
Jandek,
The Slackers,
Tom Boy,
Underground Resistance,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Surgeon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Litter,
Hasil Adkins,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pharoah Sanders,
Severed Heads,
The Grass Roots,
Gang Green,
Aloha Tigers,
Can,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.