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 Yemen and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
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 Panda Bear to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jerry's Kids,
Soft Cell,
Scratch Acid,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
OOIOO,
Roy Ayers,
Barry Ungar,
FM Einheit,
Rites of Spring,
Gang of Four,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The United States of America,
Sex Pistols,
Donald Byrd,
Peter & Gordon,
Soft Machine,
This Heat,
Radiohead,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mo-Dettes,
The Cramps,
Audionom,
Lower 48,
Yellowson,
Magazine,
The Motions,
The Seeds,
Gong,
Amazonics,
Groovy Waters,
Ponytail,
The Beau Brummels,
Warsaw,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
T.S.O.L.,
MC5,
Japan,
Black Sheep,
The Move,
Trumans Water,
The Gap Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Red Krayola,
Brick,
Nico,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lindisfarne,
Isaac Hayes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wire,
The Zeros,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cheater Slicks,
Suburban Knight,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
B.T. Express,
Rufus Thomas,
H. Thieme,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.