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 France and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 theremin 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 Deepchord to the punk 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Warren Ellis,
Agent Orange,
Nils Olav,
Loose Ends,
Robert Görl,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Harmonia,
The Martian,
The Dave Clark Five,
Crash Course in Science,
Graham Central Station,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Soft Cell,
Delon & Dalcan,
John Cale,
LL Cool J,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kevin Saunderson,
Liliput,
Lindisfarne,
Delta 5,
Skriet,
Eddi Front,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sixth Finger,
Jacob Miller,
Youth Brigade,
K-Klass,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cybotron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fortunes,
Kerri Chandler,
Boredoms,
Mo-Dettes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Offenders,
The Real Kids,
Tommy Roe,
The Cure,
Bobby Sherman,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
June of 44,
Cameo,
Television,
Big Daddy Kane,
Charles Mingus,
Anakelly,
Dead Boys,
Faraquet,
Bush Tetras,
Peter and Kerry,
The New Christs,
Procol Harum,
The Mojo Men,
Aswad,
Sam Rivers,
Lalann,
Grandmaster Flash,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.