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 Solomon Islands and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Sarah Menescal to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
10cc,
The Shadows of Knight,
World's Most,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Residents,
John Foxx,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Glenn Branca,
Metal Thangz,
Ultravox,
Funky Four + One,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Matthew Halsall,
Derrick Morgan,
Swell Maps,
Hot Snakes,
Bang On A Can,
Public Image Ltd.,
Monolake,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Index,
The New Christs,
FM Einheit,
The Golliwogs,
Don Cherry,
Moebius,
Second Layer,
The Busters,
Kurtis Blow,
Dennis Brown,
Patti Smith,
The Dave Clark Five,
Black Flag,
The Skatalites,
Lyres,
Section 25,
Barrington Levy,
The Fugs,
JFA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Last Poets,
Neil Young,
Panda Bear,
Boogie Down Productions,
Y Pants,
Alton Ellis,
Echospace,
Minutemen,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Germs,
ABBA,
Harry Pussy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stetsasonic,
Heaven 17,
Underground Resistance,
Can, Can, Can, Can.
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.