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 United States and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Alison Limerick to the jazz 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
The Techniques,
FM Einheit,
Half Japanese,
The Cramps,
Charles Mingus,
Ossler,
Roxy Music,
MDC,
ABC,
Sound Behaviour,
Black Moon,
Qualms,
Eric Dolphy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
F. McDonald,
Theoretical Girls,
Rites of Spring,
Arthur Verocai,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Modern Lovers,
Pere Ubu,
Ituana,
Faraquet,
Chris & Cosey,
Sonny Sharrock,
Quadrant,
the Association,
Eli Mardock,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Knickerbockers,
The Busters,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Fortunes,
Technova,
Dead Boys,
The Real Kids,
Unrelated Segments,
Joe Finger,
Brick,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Aaron Thompson,
T. Rex,
X-Ray Spex,
Sun Ra,
Black Sheep,
Amon Düül,
Dave Gahan,
Liliput,
Duran Duran,
Public Enemy,
Marc Almond,
Cecil Taylor,
Make Up,
Talk Talk,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Thee Headcoats,
Shuggie Otis,
Bobby Byrd,
Audionom,
Newcleus,
Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach.
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.