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 India and from Portland.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Johannesburg.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Theoretical Girls to the dance 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
The Associates,
Leonard Cohen,
U.S. Maple,
Moss Icon,
D'Angelo,
Black Bananas,
Donny Hathaway,
Alphaville,
The Techniques,
Supertramp,
Big Daddy Kane,
Niagra,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kaleidoscope,
Oblivians,
The Cramps,
CMW,
Sight & Sound,
Blake Baxter,
Echospace,
Barry Ungar,
Tom Boy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Darondo,
Wolf Eyes,
Archie Shepp,
Wings,
Simply Red,
Masters at Work,
Glambeats Corp.,
Oneida,
The Stooges,
Judy Mowatt,
The Cowsills,
Brick,
Ronan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Germs,
Guru Guru,
DNA,
L. Decosne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Aural Exciters,
Chris & Cosey,
Inner City,
The Dirtbombs,
the Human League,
Lakeside,
Fela Kuti,
World's Most,
Q and Not U,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Human League,
Harmonia,
The Young Rascals,
The Martian,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Fugs,
The Searchers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lou Christie,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.