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 the UAE and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 clarinet 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 the Swans to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
The Fuzztones,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Anthony Braxton,
Funky Four + One,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fat Boys,
Altered Images,
Sight & Sound,
The Skatalites,
cv313,
Bootsy Collins,
Jawbox,
Brand Nubian,
Guru Guru,
The Monochrome Set,
Siglo XX,
Arab on Radar,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Althea and Donna,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Peter & Gordon,
Gang Starr,
The Detroit Cobras,
Q and Not U,
The Evens,
L. Decosne,
Interpol,
Hoover,
Minny Pops,
Subhumans,
The Dirtbombs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eddi Front,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Joe Finger,
Animal Collective,
Y Pants,
Archie Shepp,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lindisfarne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bobby Sherman,
Adolescents,
Barclay James Harvest,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Alton Ellis,
Don Cherry,
Brass Construction,
The Remains,
Agitation Free,
Television Personalities,
Model 500,
Lou Christie,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Schoolly D,
Brothers Johnson,
The Smoke,
Skriet,
Cybotron,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.