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 Switzerland and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Marine Girls to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Animal Collective,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Inner City,
Jacob Miller,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brand Nubian,
Wire,
Heaven 17,
This Heat,
The Alarm Clocks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bang On A Can,
Delon & Dalcan,
Derrick Morgan,
The Mojo Men,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kaleidoscope,
The Music Machine,
X-101,
Sun City Girls,
The Real Kids,
Faraquet,
The Monochrome Set,
Joyce Sims,
Lebanon Hanover,
Make Up,
Rotary Connection,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Happenings,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Fall,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Metal Thangz,
James White and The Blacks,
The Dead C,
The Sonics,
Soulsonic Force,
Cybotron,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sight & Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Subhumans,
K-Klass,
David McCallum,
Barrington Levy,
Ornette Coleman,
The Velvet Underground,
Cameo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
JFA,
the Human League,
Sister Nancy,
Stetsasonic,
The Durutti Column,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.