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 Australia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 güiro 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 La Düsseldorf to the crunk 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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Yellowson,
The Martian,
The Raincoats,
Gong,
Erasure,
Ultravox,
Panda Bear,
Gabor Szabo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Easy Going,
Sonic Youth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Blues Magoos,
Nico,
Sandy B,
Arab on Radar,
James White and The Blacks,
K-Klass,
Oneida,
Visage,
Crispian St. Peters,
KRS-One,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Slits,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Connie Case,
Television Personalities,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Qualms,
The Toasters,
the Germs,
Severed Heads,
T.S.O.L.,
Tropical Tobacco,
Donald Byrd,
Faust,
Amon Düül II,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joensuu 1685,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fall,
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wally Richardson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Warsaw,
Sex Pistols,
Eden Ahbez,
Duran Duran,
Leonard Cohen,
A Certain Ratio,
Livin' Joy,
Sound Behaviour,
Silicon Teens,
Soul II Soul,
Pulsallama,
Lou Christie,
The Young Rascals,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mission of Burma,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.