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 Fiji and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron 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 Sonny Sharrock to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Josef K,
Sällskapet,
Connie Case,
Eve St. Jones,
Average White Band,
The United States of America,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bobby Womack,
Matthew Halsall,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Model 500,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun Ra,
The Birthday Party,
Rosa Yemen,
Sparks,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pussy Galore,
Deakin,
Parry Music,
Robert Wyatt,
Sound Behaviour,
Aaron Thompson,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ohio Players,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
X-102,
Make Up,
Flash Fearless,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Shuggie Otis,
Oblivians,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Toasters,
The Monks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
T.S.O.L.,
Tubeway Army,
Eden Ahbez,
Ossler,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fall,
Cheater Slicks,
Franke,
Max Romeo,
ABC,
Arab on Radar,
Barrington Levy,
Masters at Work,
Adolescents,
Chris Corsano,
La Düsseldorf,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moebius,
Yaz,
Rufus Thomas,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rekid,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.