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 Estonia and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
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 linndrum 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 Adolescents to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Black Pus,
Glambeats Corp.,
Alton Ellis,
The Knickerbockers,
Skaos,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Adolescents,
The Seeds,
Leonard Cohen,
Marc Almond,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terrestrial Tones,
Skriet,
Thompson Twins,
the Slits,
The Victims,
John Foxx,
Jeff Mills,
Faraquet,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Idris Muhammad,
Heaven 17,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dead Boys,
Harpers Bizarre,
Liliput,
Michelle Simonal,
Rod Modell,
Interpol,
Deepchord,
The Human League,
Archie Shepp,
Ornette Coleman,
The Saints,
Rosa Yemen,
Simply Red,
Maleditus Sound,
Suicide,
Avey Tare,
Ultra Naté,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Index,
The Neon Judgement,
Soulsonic Force,
Fela Kuti,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Magma,
John Cale,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Walker Brothers,
Soul II Soul,
Throbbing Gristle,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Matthew Bourne,
Jesper Dahlback,
The New Christs,
Quadrant,
The Gories,
The Modern Lovers,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.