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 Oman and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 synthesizer 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 Swell Maps to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Das Ding,
Can,
Tomorrow,
Outsiders,
Kenny Larkin,
Hasil Adkins,
Silicon Teens,
Yazoo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Names,
DJ Style,
The Birthday Party,
Siglo XX,
Boredoms,
Dark Day,
Rakim,
Black Flag,
Shuggie Otis,
Youth Brigade,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Subhumans,
KRS-One,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Infiniti,
Nils Olav,
Ornette Coleman,
Tommy Roe,
Tom Boy,
Fluxion,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Deepchord,
Loose Ends,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brand Nubian,
The Red Krayola,
Danielle Patucci,
Schoolly D,
Stockholm Monsters,
E-Dancer,
Bill Wells,
PIL,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Half Japanese,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mission of Burma,
Donny Hathaway,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Gun Club,
D'Angelo,
Eric B and Rakim,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.