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 Austria and from Johannesburg.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the organ 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fire Engines,
MDC,
The Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
Lindisfarne,
Delta 5,
Q and Not U,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Roxy Music,
Sandy B,
Wire,
Rites of Spring,
Bauhaus,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
JFA,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Derrick Morgan,
Howard Jones,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Intrusion,
Slick Rick,
Funkadelic,
The Birthday Party,
Funky Four + One,
Icehouse,
Spoonie Gee,
Masters at Work,
ABC,
Fear,
Rotary Connection,
Juan Atkins,
Country Teasers,
The Blues Magoos,
Absolute Body Control,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mandrill,
The Walker Brothers,
Lou Reed,
Chris & Cosey,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
L. Decosne,
Erasure,
Scratch Acid,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
CMW,
Circle Jerks,
Oneida,
Fat Boys,
The Misunderstood,
Ronan,
Little Man,
Lou Christie,
Bobby Womack,
Robert Görl,
Joy Division,
Ornette Coleman,
Jeff Mills,
Peter & Gordon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Animal Collective,
Albert Ayler,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.