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 Kenya and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin 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 Procol Harum to the grunge 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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Detroit Cobras,
Agitation Free,
One Last Wish,
Archie Shepp,
10cc,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
John Foxx,
Erasure,
The Gories,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
ABBA,
Masters at Work,
Sun Ra,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Blake Baxter,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Derrick May,
James Chance & The Contortions,
JFA,
The Fuzztones,
The Stooges,
Erykah Badu,
Marine Girls,
Kerri Chandler,
Outsiders,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Angels of Light,
Steve Hackett,
Smog,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Chris & Cosey,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Urselle,
Lalo Schifrin,
Buzzcocks,
Youth Brigade,
The Cosmic Jokers,
F. McDonald,
The Wake,
Matthew Bourne,
Bill Wells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Slave,
Joy Division,
Ken Boothe,
Joyce Sims,
Alton Ellis,
Fear,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jacques Brel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Stetsasonic,
The Skatalites,
The Moleskins,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Liliput,
Ossler,
the Germs,
The Slits,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.