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 Australia and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the snare 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 The Searchers to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Bobbi Humphrey,
La Düsseldorf,
Von Mondo,
Zapp,
The Alarm Clocks,
Spandau Ballet,
Niagra,
Eddi Front,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Kinks,
Porter Ricks,
Idris Muhammad,
John Lydon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Essential Logic,
Glambeats Corp.,
X-102,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Terrestrial Tones,
Toni Rubio,
Albert Ayler,
The Cramps,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Count Five,
AZ,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lakeside,
Alphaville,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sex Pistols,
The Five Americans,
Warsaw,
Moebius,
The Moody Blues,
Ultravox,
L. Decosne,
Mary Jane Girls,
Vainqueur,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Hasil Adkins,
The J.B.'s,
Laurel Aitken,
Sun City Girls,
Chrome,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Reagan Youth,
ABC,
Maleditus Sound,
Minor Threat,
The Skatalites,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Grass Roots,
Pulsallama,
Nick Fraelich,
the Sonics,
Gabor Szabo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.