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 Morocco and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Average White Band to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harry Pussy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Moody Blues,
Brass Construction,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camouflage,
Grauzone,
Pharoah Sanders,
China Crisis,
Symarip,
The Cowsills,
kango's stein massive,
JFA,
Bobby Sherman,
Andrew Hill,
Marshall Jefferson,
Joe Smooth,
Lightning Bolt,
Tom Boy,
Second Layer,
Gong,
Johnny Clarke,
Joe Finger,
James White and The Blacks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ken Boothe,
Joy Division,
Smog,
The Associates,
The Gap Band,
OOIOO,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Arab on Radar,
U.S. Maple,
Freddie Wadling,
Eric Copeland,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
David McCallum,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rekid,
Khruangbin,
Au Pairs,
Hashim,
Visage,
Alton Ellis,
Scratch Acid,
Maurizio,
Reuben Wilson,
Eddi Front,
Flash Fearless,
Negative Approach,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Swell Maps,
John Lydon,
Minutemen,
David Axelrod,
Nik Kershaw,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.