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 Sri Lanka and from Paris.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 American Breed to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Minnie Riperton,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Smiths,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Raincoats,
The Trojans,
Organ,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Reagan Youth,
ABBA,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Shoche,
F. McDonald,
Don Cherry,
Franke,
Sam Rivers,
cv313,
Grauzone,
The Toasters,
Bobby Byrd,
The Cramps,
Flash Fearless,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pagans,
Supertramp,
The Zeros,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gastr Del Sol,
Anakelly,
Deakin,
The Fugs,
Radiohead,
Stiv Bators,
Excepter,
Aswad,
Lalo Schifrin,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sällskapet,
The Tremeloes,
D'Angelo,
Saccharine Trust,
Jawbox,
Symarip,
Subhumans,
Main Source,
Dennis Brown,
Ohio Players,
The Fire Engines,
Wings,
Tubeway Army,
the Normal,
Gil Scott Heron,
Erykah Badu,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Urselle,
Camberwell Now,
X-102,
Bluetip,
Peter & Gordon,
The Fall,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.