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 Korea North and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 Lyon and Lyon.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Shadows of Knight to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
The Fugs,
Alton Ellis,
Slave,
Nas,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Guru Guru,
One Last Wish,
The Moleskins,
Kas Product,
Sun Ra,
Khruangbin,
Freddie Wadling,
Dual Sessions,
Joe Finger,
Joyce Sims,
Reagan Youth,
The United States of America,
Kaleidoscope,
Robert Wyatt,
The Stooges,
The Real Kids,
Big Daddy Kane,
Juan Atkins,
Alison Limerick,
Deakin,
Lee Hazlewood,
Byron Stingily,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sonny Sharrock,
Theoretical Girls,
Sarah Menescal,
Lalann,
Animal Collective,
the Human League,
Franke,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Outsiders,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lou Christie,
The Modern Lovers,
Liliput,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hasil Adkins,
These Immortal Souls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joensuu 1685,
Eric Copeland,
Massinfluence,
Interpol,
The Selecter,
Stiv Bators,
DJ Style,
Flash Fearless,
The Fall,
Soul II Soul,
X-Ray Spex,
the Bar-Kays,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.