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 Dominica and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Zero Boys to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux 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 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Kas Product,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Derrick Morgan,
Yazoo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bauhaus,
Severed Heads,
Isaac Hayes,
Nas,
Crash Course in Science,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Animal Collective,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ralphi Rosario,
Barry Ungar,
Anthony Braxton,
Television Personalities,
Amon Düül II,
Heaven 17,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dual Sessions,
Average White Band,
The Count Five,
Moss Icon,
Japan,
Nik Kershaw,
The Misunderstood,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Guru Guru,
R.M.O.,
Deadbeat,
cv313,
Lou Reed,
John Foxx,
Q and Not U,
The Real Kids,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Slave,
Godley & Creme,
Kaleidoscope,
The Velvet Underground,
Howard Jones,
Wally Richardson,
Kurtis Blow,
The Cowsills,
The Slits,
Andrew Hill,
The Searchers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marshall Jefferson,
Model 500,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Divine Comedy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Donald Byrd,
Letta Mbulu,
Spoonie Gee,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.