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 Senegal and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Rosa Yemen to the rock 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 The Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Michelle Simonal,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Radiohead,
Television,
Fat Boys,
the Normal,
Magazine,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joey Negro,
Young Marble Giants,
Barbara Tucker,
Reuben Wilson,
Accadde A,
Kool Moe Dee,
Drexciya,
Scratch Acid,
Nico,
Joe Finger,
MC5,
Talk Talk,
Eve St. Jones,
Gastr Del Sol,
kango's stein massive,
The Fortunes,
Marine Girls,
Panda Bear,
Sex Pistols,
Erasure,
EPMD,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Anthony Braxton,
Jawbox,
Fela Kuti,
Eric Copeland,
Con Funk Shun,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Avey Tare,
Curtis Mayfield,
June Days,
Patti Smith,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gang Starr,
Lindisfarne,
Qualms,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Byron Stingily,
Dual Sessions,
Unrelated Segments,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kayak,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Smiths,
Rekid,
the Fania All-Stars,
Visage,
Ossler,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Subhumans,
Pylon,
Parry Music,
The Gap Band,
X-Ray Spex,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.