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 San Marino and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Metal Thangz,
Crime,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mission of Burma,
Barrington Levy,
Mark Hollis,
Rufus Thomas,
Jawbox,
Moby Grape,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camouflage,
K-Klass,
Supertramp,
the Bar-Kays,
Scrapy,
Monolake,
The Beau Brummels,
JFA,
the Human League,
Average White Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lucky Dragons,
Isaac Hayes,
Essential Logic,
Susan Cadogan,
Gang Starr,
The Blues Magoos,
Joe Finger,
Freddie Wadling,
Cluster,
Sparks,
R.M.O.,
Main Source,
Juan Atkins,
Steve Hackett,
Pantytec,
Soft Cell,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Altered Images,
X-102,
Derrick Morgan,
The Cramps,
Alice Coltrane,
Reagan Youth,
Dead Boys,
Gang of Four,
Youth Brigade,
Mars,
Pere Ubu,
Jesper Dahlback,
Stereo Dub,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dual Sessions,
Thee Headcoats,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
David Axelrod,
The Flesh Eaters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Slits,
Visage,
Porter Ricks,
Stiv Bators,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.