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 Ukraine and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Maleditus Sound to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
David Axelrod,
Lucky Dragons,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Talk Talk,
Letta Mbulu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Loose Ends,
The Pretty Things,
The Human League,
Pulsallama,
Nick Fraelich,
This Heat,
Mary Jane Girls,
Reagan Youth,
Donny Hathaway,
Slick Rick,
The Angels of Light,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nico,
A Certain Ratio,
Steve Hackett,
Kayak,
Joe Finger,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rapeman,
Pet Shop Boys,
Wings,
Bootsy Collins,
Tropical Tobacco,
Traffic Nightmare,
Prince Buster,
Slave,
Sarah Menescal,
Bill Near,
Scan 7,
The Misunderstood,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
X-101,
The Victims,
Scratch Acid,
Adolescents,
Newcleus,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joey Negro,
Surgeon,
Anthony Braxton,
Monolake,
Sparks,
Blancmange,
Shoche,
Boogie Down Productions,
Minnie Riperton,
Eric Dolphy,
Minutemen,
L. Decosne,
John Holt,
Dave Gahan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.