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 Monaco and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tommy Roe to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Ossler,
Monolake,
Eden Ahbez,
Underground Resistance,
The Cure,
Max Romeo,
Theoretical Girls,
Swell Maps,
Flash Fearless,
Slick Rick,
Quadrant,
Public Image Ltd.,
Curtis Mayfield,
Crispy Ambulance,
Hardrive,
The Standells,
Niagra,
Byron Stingily,
Aswad,
The Electric Prunes,
PIL,
Depeche Mode,
This Heat,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sound Behaviour,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barrington Levy,
Easy Going,
The Associates,
Flamin' Groovies,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dorothy Ashby,
Swans,
Banda Bassotti,
The Modern Lovers,
The Wake,
Henry Cow,
The Music Machine,
Dead Boys,
Spoonie Gee,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delta 5,
The Gladiators,
Sixth Finger,
Cecil Taylor,
The Cowsills,
Piero Umiliani,
Brass Construction,
The Seeds,
The Toasters,
Gang Green,
The Blues Magoos,
Amon Düül,
Harpers Bizarre,
Quantec,
the Slits,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Barracudas,
The Real Kids,
K-Klass,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.