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 Zambia and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 CMW to the grime 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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Mission of Burma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fat Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
MC5,
Neil Young,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gang Gang Dance,
Dual Sessions,
Y Pants,
The Associates,
Archie Shepp,
Amazonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Half Japanese,
Bluetip,
Stetsasonic,
Model 500,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Monks,
The Shadows of Knight,
L. Decosne,
Slick Rick,
Average White Band,
Unrelated Segments,
The Pretty Things,
Roxette,
Quantec,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Banda Bassotti,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Real Kids,
PIL,
Gregory Isaacs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Human League,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Black Flag,
DJ Sneak,
Eli Mardock,
The Techniques,
Barclay James Harvest,
DJ Style,
U.S. Maple,
X-101,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Doors,
Zero Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joe Finger,
Ornette Coleman,
The Motions,
Vladislav Delay,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
New Order,
Soft Cell,
The Blues Magoos,
Massinfluence,
Intrusion,
Stockholm Monsters,
China Crisis,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.