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 Korea North and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Michael McDonald 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 Michelle Simonal to the rock 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grey Daturas,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tim Buckley,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sun Ra,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Althea and Donna,
Fluxion,
Howard Jones,
Lou Reed,
Tropical Tobacco,
David Bowie,
The Martian,
Second Layer,
Infiniti,
Motorama,
Ralphi Rosario,
MC5,
The Human League,
Stockholm Monsters,
World's Most,
Khruangbin,
Young Marble Giants,
Marshall Jefferson,
Unwound,
Make Up,
Rakim,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Albert Ayler,
the Germs,
The Slackers,
U.S. Maple,
Piero Umiliani,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Raincoats,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
X-102,
Icehouse,
Crime,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Niagra,
Bill Near,
Scan 7,
The Walker Brothers,
The Dead C,
Black Flag,
The Selecter,
The Sonics,
John Holt,
Black Sheep,
cv313,
Kaleidoscope,
Bobby Byrd,
Country Teasers,
The Knickerbockers,
Popol Vuh,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.