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 Marshall Islands and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Woodstock.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Public Image Ltd. to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
The Doobie Brothers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Anakelly,
Sandy B,
ABBA,
The Motions,
Ornette Coleman,
Junior Murvin,
Ponytail,
Eve St. Jones,
Sister Nancy,
Infiniti,
The Electric Prunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Minny Pops,
Kaleidoscope,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Tremeloes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bang On A Can,
Popol Vuh,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
H. Thieme,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eric Dolphy,
Derrick Morgan,
Letta Mbulu,
U.S. Maple,
Reagan Youth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Moby Grape,
AZ,
David Axelrod,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sonic Youth,
Swans,
The Blues Magoos,
The Leaves,
New Age Steppers,
Brick,
Crash Course in Science,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Invisible,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Association,
Moebius,
The Smiths,
The Kinks,
The Gun Club,
Man Parrish,
The Wake,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sparks,
Ohio Players,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fall,
Ituana,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive.
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.