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 Ghana and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 snare 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 PIL to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
Wire,
The Velvet Underground,
10cc,
Moby Grape,
Gabor Szabo,
X-101,
Hasil Adkins,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eden Ahbez,
Main Source,
Youth Brigade,
Livin' Joy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Q and Not U,
Cymande,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Maleditus Sound,
Grey Daturas,
Gregory Isaacs,
The New Christs,
The Fire Engines,
Hot Snakes,
Anthony Braxton,
The Blackbyrds,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Moleskins,
Von Mondo,
Alison Limerick,
B.T. Express,
Scan 7,
Isaac Hayes,
Dead Boys,
Lungfish,
Faraquet,
China Crisis,
the Swans,
Lightning Bolt,
The Music Machine,
New Order,
Idris Muhammad,
Ken Boothe,
Tubeway Army,
Schoolly D,
The Doors,
Fluxion,
Aural Exciters,
Bill Near,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Cramps,
Absolute Body Control,
The J.B.'s,
The Busters,
Crispy Ambulance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scott Walker,
John Cale,
The Standells,
Robert Hood,
Los Fastidios,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.