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 Ethiopia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the techno 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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Tim Buckley,
Lightning Bolt,
MC5,
The Cramps,
Camberwell Now,
Bang On A Can,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Cure,
Bob Dylan,
Robert Hood,
Judy Mowatt,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ituana,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fela Kuti,
DJ Style,
Joensuu 1685,
The Smoke,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sun Ra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Zeros,
Jacob Miller,
Dark Day,
The Stooges,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Motions,
Crooked Eye,
Gang Green,
Skriet,
Animal Collective,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Unrelated Segments,
Suicide,
Yusef Lateef,
The Tremeloes,
Infiniti,
Robert Görl,
Silicon Teens,
The Happenings,
Minutemen,
Cal Tjader,
Massinfluence,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Moby Grape,
Make Up,
Byron Stingily,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
La Düsseldorf,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Von Mondo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Terry Callier,
Oblivians,
Stiv Bators,
kango's stein massive,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ronan,
Patti Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.