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 Canada and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Crispian St. Peters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
L. Decosne,
Au Pairs,
Idris Muhammad,
Lightning Bolt,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pierre Henry,
Television,
Chris Corsano,
Iggy Pop,
Zero Boys,
the Swans,
Harmonia,
Talk Talk,
Dark Day,
Sixth Finger,
Drexciya,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pantytec,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Tommy Roe,
Ronnie Foster,
X-Ray Spex,
Siglo XX,
Kayak,
The Saints,
Guru Guru,
The Searchers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Piero Umiliani,
Alphaville,
John Holt,
F. McDonald,
Chris & Cosey,
The Names,
Brass Construction,
Suburban Knight,
Wings,
New Order,
Brick,
Babytalk,
Ken Boothe,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pole,
the Fania All-Stars,
Niagra,
Audionom,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scratch Acid,
Pere Ubu,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Al Stewart,
Flipper,
John Foxx,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Kinks,
Dual Sessions,
Mandrill,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.