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 Ghana and from Mumbai.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 In Retrospect to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kings Of Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Whodini,
Thompson Twins,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camouflage,
Ornette Coleman,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Echospace,
Marmalade,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Trojans,
Maleditus Sound,
The Techniques,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Todd Terry,
James White and The Blacks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Teasers,
Yazoo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Parry Music,
Pole,
China Crisis,
10cc,
Visage,
The Residents,
Fugazi,
Spandau Ballet,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tubeway Army,
Metal Thangz,
T.S.O.L.,
Gabor Szabo,
Lou Reed,
Eric Copeland,
Stetsasonic,
The Martian,
The Names,
Drive Like Jehu,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fela Kuti,
The Index,
Rod Modell,
Goldenarms,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
H. Thieme,
The Electric Prunes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Cowsills,
Excepter,
Reuben Wilson,
Organ,
Sam Rivers,
Television Personalities,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moby Grape,
Terry Callier,
Sun Ra,
Jandek,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.