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 Guinea-Bissau and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fela Kuti to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Trumans Water,
The Doors,
JFA,
Ludus,
Massinfluence,
Make Up,
Eden Ahbez,
Donny Hathaway,
The Smoke,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Shuggie Otis,
The Misunderstood,
The Kinks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Trojans,
John Holt,
Metal Thangz,
Lou Christie,
Roxy Music,
Vladislav Delay,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Groovy Waters,
Jeff Mills,
The Saints,
Young Marble Giants,
Moby Grape,
Tim Buckley,
Yazoo,
Nik Kershaw,
E-Dancer,
Patti Smith,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rufus Thomas,
Steve Hackett,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gang of Four,
Q65,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joy Division,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Searchers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Terry Callier,
China Crisis,
Swell Maps,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Little Man,
Matthew Halsall,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Litter,
The Move,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jerry's Kids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Neil Young,
Anthony Braxton,
Letta Mbulu,
Erasure,
The Sound,
Country Teasers,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.