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 Austria and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the crunk 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Lalann,
Maleditus Sound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hashim,
ABBA,
Tubeway Army,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Steve Hackett,
The Fortunes,
Roxette,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Unwound,
Derrick May,
Robert Hood,
a-ha,
The New Christs,
Anakelly,
Bush Tetras,
Scrapy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Stiv Bators,
Ultra Naté,
Todd Rundgren,
Flipper,
X-102,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Junior Murvin,
New Age Steppers,
10cc,
Scott Walker,
Pantaleimon,
Pole,
The Gories,
Lindisfarne,
The Five Americans,
Neil Young,
Blossom Toes,
Accadde A,
Althea and Donna,
Jerry's Kids,
ABC,
Deadbeat,
Excepter,
The Blackbyrds,
The Mojo Men,
Kerrie Biddell,
the Association,
The Wake,
Popol Vuh,
Freddie Wadling,
Bang On A Can,
Bill Wells,
Kevin Saunderson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Reagan Youth,
Lungfish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Move,
Gichy Dan,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.