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 Eritrea and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 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 Idris Muhammad to the jazz 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 F. McDonald. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Radiohead,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Amon Düül II,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Y Pants,
Sparks,
Hot Snakes,
Malaria!,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Swans,
Schoolly D,
Anthony Braxton,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Mojo Men,
Joy Division,
DJ Sneak,
Bluetip,
Joyce Sims,
Mo-Dettes,
Aloha Tigers,
Sex Pistols,
John Holt,
Country Teasers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kevin Saunderson,
Slave,
Lightning Bolt,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gil Scott Heron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Laurel Aitken,
Nas,
Traffic Nightmare,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
These Immortal Souls,
Mars,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Banda Bassotti,
Theoretical Girls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Black Flag,
Mad Mike,
Bootsy Collins,
Royal Trux,
Rakim,
Severed Heads,
The Monochrome Set,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cal Tjader,
Iggy Pop,
The Electric Prunes,
Blossom Toes,
The Offenders,
The Neon Judgement,
Jawbox,
Junior Murvin,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Selecter,
Colin Newman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.