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 Poland and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Peter and Kerry to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Model 500,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Slave,
Little Man,
Rotary Connection,
Black Bananas,
Reagan Youth,
Marvin Gaye,
Isaac Hayes,
Massinfluence,
Moss Icon,
Hashim,
The Offenders,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joe Smooth,
The Blackbyrds,
Minor Threat,
the Germs,
Audionom,
the Soft Cell,
John Coltrane,
Agent Orange,
Robert Hood,
The Selecter,
Sly & The Family Stone,
PIL,
Aloha Tigers,
Flash Fearless,
Mark Hollis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
One Last Wish,
Stereo Dub,
Von Mondo,
The Grass Roots,
Warren Ellis,
MC5,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Black Dice,
Barbara Tucker,
Yellowson,
Schoolly D,
Moby Grape,
Funkadelic,
James White and The Blacks,
Oneida,
Ituana,
Fela Kuti,
Das Ding,
The Sonics,
These Immortal Souls,
The Pop Group,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Doors,
Deadbeat,
Nation of Ulysses,
MDC,
the Slits,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Al Stewart,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alice Coltrane,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.