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 the UAE and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Danielle Patucci to the punk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fatback Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Con Funk Shun,
Colin Newman,
Dorothy Ashby,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Victims,
Joensuu 1685,
CMW,
Bill Near,
Jacques Brel,
Pulsallama,
Thee Headcoats,
Pole,
Banda Bassotti,
Nils Olav,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Country Teasers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Stiv Bators,
Scott Walker,
The Vogues,
The Star Department,
The Divine Comedy,
Altered Images,
The Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Remains,
Aloha Tigers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Intrusion,
Pylon,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Selecter,
Depeche Mode,
Saccharine Trust,
Lightning Bolt,
Jeff Mills,
The Last Poets,
The Black Dice,
John Foxx,
Boredoms,
Funkadelic,
UT,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Toni Rubio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eddi Front,
Inner City,
the Fania All-Stars,
Y Pants,
Spandau Ballet,
ABBA,
Nas,
Blake Baxter,
10cc,
Skaos,
Bang On A Can,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.