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 Thailand and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Talk Talk to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Judy Mowatt,
Pagans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Techniques,
Absolute Body Control,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jandek,
Minutemen,
Ossler,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Divine Comedy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Graham Central Station,
Scratch Acid,
Erasure,
In Retrospect,
T. Rex,
Ponytail,
Pylon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Theoretical Girls,
Ten City,
The Fire Engines,
Moby Grape,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Television Personalities,
Audionom,
Ultra Naté,
Stereo Dub,
Sixth Finger,
Ohio Players,
This Heat,
Todd Terry,
The J.B.'s,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Oblivians,
Au Pairs,
Funkadelic,
Scott Walker,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Monochrome Set,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mission of Burma,
ABBA,
Aaron Thompson,
Don Cherry,
JFA,
KRS-One,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Q and Not U,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Birthday Party,
Camberwell Now,
Lyres,
Tom Boy,
Gabor Szabo,
Angry Samoans,
Make Up, Make Up, Make Up, Make Up.
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.