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 Niger and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Boredoms to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tomorrow,
Gang Green,
Bill Near,
Skriet,
Goldenarms,
Barry Ungar,
Kayak,
Steve Hackett,
Leonard Cohen,
T.S.O.L.,
This Heat,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Arab on Radar,
Bronski Beat,
Glambeats Corp.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sight & Sound,
Magma,
Roy Ayers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
R.M.O.,
Barclay James Harvest,
Faust,
ABBA,
The Gun Club,
Motorama,
The Evens,
Jacob Miller,
Todd Rundgren,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Zeros,
Ornette Coleman,
Kaleidoscope,
Pere Ubu,
Urselle,
Unwound,
Excepter,
Susan Cadogan,
Duran Duran,
Quando Quango,
Ronan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eddi Front,
Con Funk Shun,
Brass Construction,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Von Mondo,
Main Source,
The Victims,
Neil Young,
Delta 5,
Public Image Ltd.,
Underground Resistance,
Rekid,
Fela Kuti,
Nils Olav,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kenny Larkin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.