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 Iran and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Scan 7 to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones 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?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Crooked Eye,
Soft Cell,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Joyce Sims,
The Slackers,
Audionom,
Rakim,
Intrusion,
Tomorrow,
The Skatalites,
Pet Shop Boys,
Skarface,
Pylon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
New Order,
The Standells,
Gong,
Derrick Morgan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rod Modell,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
PIL,
cv313,
Charles Mingus,
The Martian,
Scientists,
FM Einheit,
Fluxion,
Minutemen,
Agitation Free,
R.M.O.,
Television Personalities,
Davy DMX,
World's Most,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fat Boys,
Erykah Badu,
Nick Fraelich,
the Germs,
Lou Reed,
Babytalk,
Glenn Branca,
The Count Five,
Kerri Chandler,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Tears for Fears,
Donny Hathaway,
Kevin Saunderson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gerry Rafferty,
Junior Murvin,
The American Breed,
The Mighty Diamonds,
James White and The Blacks,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.