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 Somalia and from Portland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar 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 Rotary Connection to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites 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?
Tommy Roe,
Skarface,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soft Cell,
Monolake,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Khruangbin,
Moss Icon,
Alice Coltrane,
Aswad,
The Seeds,
Simply Red,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Minnie Riperton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Section 25,
E-Dancer,
The Velvet Underground,
The Tremeloes,
Easy Going,
Sun City Girls,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Darondo,
Banda Bassotti,
The Birthday Party,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ronan,
Bobby Womack,
Carl Craig,
Dorothy Ashby,
Marcia Griffiths,
Maleditus Sound,
Brick,
Monks,
Metal Thangz,
Harpers Bizarre,
Au Pairs,
Eddi Front,
Masters at Work,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Amon Düül II,
Traffic Nightmare,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fear,
Matthew Halsall,
Can,
Young Marble Giants,
Rod Modell,
Joensuu 1685,
Shuggie Otis,
La Düsseldorf,
Marvin Gaye,
Dead Boys,
T. Rex,
In Retrospect,
The Pretty Things,
Rosa Yemen,
Average White Band,
X-101,
Cybotron,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.