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 Oman and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Janne Schatter to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ronnie Foster,
Easy Going,
Rufus Thomas,
The Golliwogs,
Masters at Work,
The Fire Engines,
Niagra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Livin' Joy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Reagan Youth,
Jerry's Kids,
Ten City,
Avey Tare,
FM Einheit,
The Walker Brothers,
Monks,
Shoche,
Unwound,
Groovy Waters,
Arthur Verocai,
Joyce Sims,
The Blackbyrds,
The Monks,
Gabor Szabo,
Crime,
Dark Day,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cal Tjader,
EPMD,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sonny Sharrock,
X-102,
Mad Mike,
Nick Fraelich,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jawbox,
Suicide,
Davy DMX,
The Fugs,
the Swans,
In Retrospect,
Average White Band,
The Red Krayola,
Goldenarms,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pierre Henry,
The Vogues,
Joy Division,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Au Pairs,
Country Teasers,
Basic Channel,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.