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 Mexico and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Invisible to the funk 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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Dave Gahan,
Roxy Music,
Soul Sonic Force,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pere Ubu,
Ornette Coleman,
Aural Exciters,
Drexciya,
Cameo,
X-102,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kool Moe Dee,
Con Funk Shun,
Scientists,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Darondo,
Amon Düül II,
ABC,
Joy Division,
Scion,
Grey Daturas,
The Busters,
The Happenings,
Gregory Isaacs,
Swell Maps,
Ronan,
Aaron Thompson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Moebius,
the Swans,
Marmalade,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Gladiators,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fatback Band,
The Fortunes,
The Star Department,
Quantec,
JFA,
The Grass Roots,
The Kinks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nas,
Maleditus Sound,
New Order,
The Gun Club,
The Five Americans,
The Buckinghams,
Lower 48,
The Cure,
K-Klass,
Main Source,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Techniques,
Deakin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.