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 Ecuador and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Donny Hathaway to the disco 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Knickerbockers,
Pere Ubu,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tim Buckley,
LL Cool J,
Mandrill,
New York Dolls,
China Crisis,
Quando Quango,
Intrusion,
Kerri Chandler,
Amon Düül II,
The Divine Comedy,
DJ Style,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wire,
Matthew Halsall,
Skaos,
Fela Kuti,
Hot Snakes,
Stetsasonic,
Delta 5,
Isaac Hayes,
Ultra Naté,
Little Man,
Warren Ellis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Flash Fearless,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sister Nancy,
Godley & Creme,
Depeche Mode,
DJ Sneak,
Grandmaster Flash,
John Coltrane,
Swans,
Procol Harum,
Scion,
Idris Muhammad,
La Düsseldorf,
Easy Going,
X-102,
Model 500,
Guru Guru,
Ituana,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Toasters,
Rapeman,
Rekid,
Wasted Youth,
The Velvet Underground,
The Barracudas,
The Tremeloes,
Camouflage,
The Real Kids,
Panda Bear,
Das Ding,
Rosa Yemen,
Minny Pops,
The Victims,
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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.