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 Romania and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yaz,
Drexciya,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jawbox,
World's Most,
Newcleus,
The New Christs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Seeds,
Alison Limerick,
Swell Maps,
Cymande,
Unrelated Segments,
Leonard Cohen,
Yellowson,
Jeff Mills,
The Mojo Men,
The Fortunes,
The Tremeloes,
Donald Byrd,
Rhythm & Sound,
Crime,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Quando Quango,
Johnny Osbourne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Mummies,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sonny Sharrock,
Brick,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cluster,
Ralphi Rosario,
Japan,
Minnie Riperton,
The Birthday Party,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Television Personalities,
The Durutti Column,
The United States of America,
Crispian St. Peters,
Youth Brigade,
Basic Channel,
Aural Exciters,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rufus Thomas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Audionom,
MDC,
The Saints,
Glenn Branca,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sonic Youth,
Al Stewart,
Shuggie Otis,
The Blackbyrds,
Jandek,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.