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 Pakistan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro 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 Aural Exciters to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sexual Harrassment record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Loose Ends,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rotary Connection,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The J.B.'s,
Q and Not U,
U.S. Maple,
Make Up,
Clear Light,
Derrick Morgan,
The Monochrome Set,
The Divine Comedy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Sonics,
The Velvet Underground,
The Leaves,
Oneida,
the Germs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eden Ahbez,
The Dirtbombs,
The Selecter,
Ten City,
The Doors,
Wally Richardson,
Robert Hood,
Rod Modell,
Black Bananas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fear,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Funkadelic,
Jerry's Kids,
Mr. Review,
The Moleskins,
the Association,
Radiopuhelimet,
Althea and Donna,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Mills,
The Pop Group,
UT,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Henry Cow,
Rekid,
Jeff Lynne,
Kerri Chandler,
Echospace,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Standells,
Frankie Knuckles,
AZ,
Pharoah Sanders,
Harmonia,
Magazine,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Niagra,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.