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 Yemen and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 clarinet 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 Aaron Thompson to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every London Community Gospel Choir record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Liliput,
The Music Machine,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Essential Logic,
Neil Young,
Television Personalities,
Cheater Slicks,
Jerry's Kids,
Aswad,
The Remains,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deadbeat,
Suburban Knight,
Gichy Dan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Steve Hackett,
The Tremeloes,
Wolf Eyes,
New Order,
Technova,
David Axelrod,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Young Rascals,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pagans,
Blancmange,
Charles Mingus,
L. Decosne,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Unwound,
The Dave Clark Five,
Grauzone,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soul II Soul,
X-101,
the Germs,
Flipper,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eli Mardock,
Royal Trux,
Duran Duran,
Pere Ubu,
Rod Modell,
Aural Exciters,
Ornette Coleman,
The New Christs,
Kerri Chandler,
Erykah Badu,
Amon Düül II,
Panda Bear,
R.M.O.,
Adolescents,
Dennis Brown,
The Standells,
The Beau Brummels,
Alice Coltrane,
MC5,
Sixth Finger,
Jeff Mills,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.