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 New Zealand and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Accra and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 linndrum 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 Deepchord to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Outsiders,
Scott Walker,
Sparks,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Andrew Hill,
Q65,
Goldenarms,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Junior Murvin,
Johnny Clarke,
Hot Snakes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Television,
Cecil Taylor,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Piero Umiliani,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Mojo Men,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter & Gordon,
Liliput,
Essential Logic,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lightning Bolt,
Echospace,
Blossom Toes,
Prince Buster,
Idris Muhammad,
The Residents,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Fela Kuti,
Alice Coltrane,
Ornette Coleman,
Delta 5,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bill Wells,
Sight & Sound,
Porter Ricks,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Gladiators,
Byron Stingily,
Chrome,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Tears for Fears,
The Index,
Laurel Aitken,
The Trojans,
The Gun Club,
Johnny Osbourne,
Flipper,
The Raincoats,
Joey Negro,
PIL,
Nico,
Nirvana,
Colin Newman,
Henry Cow,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.