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 Sri Lanka and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Nation of Ulysses to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bang on a Can All-Stars 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 guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kas Product,
A Certain Ratio,
CMW,
The Index,
Cal Tjader,
Duran Duran,
Arthur Verocai,
Section 25,
Vladislav Delay,
AZ,
Easy Going,
Nik Kershaw,
New Age Steppers,
D'Angelo,
Sarah Menescal,
Silicon Teens,
Derrick May,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Happenings,
Sound Behaviour,
Index,
Arcadia,
Ice-T,
Kurtis Blow,
Swans,
The Raincoats,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Qualms,
Jeff Mills,
Archie Shepp,
Skarface,
H. Thieme,
X-102,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camberwell Now,
Lightning Bolt,
the Fania All-Stars,
Danielle Patucci,
Pole,
Faust,
Rod Modell,
Joyce Sims,
Camouflage,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Young Marble Giants,
Albert Ayler,
Bobby Byrd,
Little Man,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kaleidoscope,
The Seeds,
OOIOO,
The Motions,
The Searchers,
Alphaville,
Hasil Adkins,
Todd Terry,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.