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 Belize and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ultravox to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boogie Down Productions,
The Slits,
The Birthday Party,
Clear Light,
Dawn Penn,
Agitation Free,
Tres Demented,
Flash Fearless,
Cheater Slicks,
Arcadia,
Marine Girls,
Scratch Acid,
DNA,
Janne Schatter,
Minutemen,
Vladislav Delay,
OOIOO,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Radiohead,
Television Personalities,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bluetip,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sun City Girls,
ABC,
Basic Channel,
The Raincoats,
Half Japanese,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rites of Spring,
Infiniti,
Tropical Tobacco,
Alison Limerick,
FM Einheit,
Hot Snakes,
Spoonie Gee,
Hoover,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Matthew Halsall,
Gang of Four,
The Zeros,
The Last Poets,
The Trojans,
Los Fastidios,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Glenn Branca,
Althea and Donna,
Crooked Eye,
Y Pants,
Howard Jones,
China Crisis,
Eric B and Rakim,
Easy Going,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Danielle Patucci,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The United States of America,
Monolake,
Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel.
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.