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 Comoros and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 Todd Terry to the disco 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
T. Rex,
Bobby Sherman,
The Gun Club,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lou Reed,
The Young Rascals,
Siglo XX,
PIL,
Heaven 17,
Massinfluence,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Toasters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sonic Youth,
Blossom Toes,
Ossler,
Joensuu 1685,
The Names,
The Offenders,
John Foxx,
cv313,
Banda Bassotti,
Kenny Larkin,
Amazonics,
Boz Scaggs,
Gong,
Marmalade,
Barry Ungar,
The Doobie Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dawn Penn,
Albert Ayler,
Little Man,
H. Thieme,
the Normal,
Ken Boothe,
Graham Central Station,
Delta 5,
Radio Birdman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brass Construction,
OOIOO,
Slick Rick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Basic Channel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sarah Menescal,
Public Enemy,
Jeff Lynne,
Tom Boy,
Bobby Womack,
Silicon Teens,
Black Flag,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eve St. Jones,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.