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 Maldives and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 harpsichord 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the funk 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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eddi Front,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Y Pants,
Banda Bassotti,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lucky Dragons,
The Monks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bill Near,
Cecil Taylor,
Sun Ra,
Chrome,
Magma,
The Pretty Things,
Jawbox,
Bobby Byrd,
Anthony Braxton,
Ice-T,
Aural Exciters,
Eve St. Jones,
The Detroit Cobras,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Skatalites,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Reed,
Lungfish,
Junior Murvin,
The Pop Group,
Young Marble Giants,
Graham Central Station,
New York Dolls,
Bluetip,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Sonics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Robert Wyatt,
The Gories,
Susan Cadogan,
Blake Baxter,
The Dirtbombs,
The Sound,
Joensuu 1685,
Sonic Youth,
Black Flag,
The Evens,
The Tremeloes,
Metal Thangz,
Ten City,
Bang On A Can,
The Walker Brothers,
Porter Ricks,
Sight & Sound,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Reagan Youth,
Goldenarms,
Basic Channel,
Chris & Cosey,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Guru Guru,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.