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 Montenegro and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 linndrum 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 Lakeside to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Durutti Column,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Anthony Braxton,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sugar Minott,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ultra Naté,
The Neon Judgement,
John Cale,
The Misunderstood,
Barbara Tucker,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eli Mardock,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Minutemen,
The Stooges,
Main Source,
June of 44,
Cymande,
The Blues Magoos,
The Zeros,
Bronski Beat,
Byron Stingily,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fugazi,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Radiohead,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ponytail,
Half Japanese,
Blossom Toes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eric Copeland,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pantaleimon,
Japan,
Roxette,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Loose Ends,
Smog,
Soft Machine,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Alison Limerick,
Negative Approach,
John Coltrane,
Jeff Lynne,
48th St. Collective,
Sight & Sound,
Lou Reed,
Unwound,
Skaos,
Leonard Cohen,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Gun Club,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.