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 Lyon.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb 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 Subhumans to the disco 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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Ituana,
The Five Americans,
Arcadia,
Bob Dylan,
Black Flag,
Unwound,
Sarah Menescal,
MDC,
Altered Images,
The Move,
Model 500,
Blancmange,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Smiths,
A Certain Ratio,
Matthew Bourne,
Schoolly D,
Harry Pussy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Monks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Juan Atkins,
Mandrill,
Man Parrish,
Deepchord,
John Holt,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Roxy Music,
Kaleidoscope,
Essential Logic,
Laurel Aitken,
Rotary Connection,
Lou Reed,
Gichy Dan,
Boz Scaggs,
Alton Ellis,
Nik Kershaw,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Velvet Underground,
Robert Görl,
The Toasters,
Prince Buster,
B.T. Express,
Pantytec,
The Searchers,
Alphaville,
Eric Dolphy,
Terry Callier,
Moss Icon,
The Skatalites,
Gang of Four,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scientists,
Barclay James Harvest,
OOIOO,
World's Most,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Soul II Soul,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
R.M.O.,
DJ Sneak,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.