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 Grenada and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 arpeggiator 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 the Association to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Jandek,
Eve St. Jones,
David McCallum,
Mo-Dettes,
Soulsonic Force,
The Last Poets,
The Gun Club,
Ralphi Rosario,
David Axelrod,
the Bar-Kays,
Little Man,
Massinfluence,
Joey Negro,
Scan 7,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Radiohead,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
kango's stein massive,
Joe Finger,
Jacob Miller,
Oneida,
The Human League,
Darondo,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Wyatt,
Throbbing Gristle,
Tommy Roe,
Quadrant,
Brick,
Oblivians,
Duran Duran,
The J.B.'s,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Colin Newman,
Roy Ayers,
Second Layer,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bronski Beat,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sam Rivers,
Derrick May,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pet Shop Boys,
AZ,
Harmonia,
Audionom,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mad Mike,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Grandmaster Flash,
Swans,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Minny Pops,
ABBA,
Erykah Badu,
The Mojo Men,
Zero Boys,
Qualms,
E-Dancer,
Technova,
Television,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.