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 Colombia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Public Image Ltd. to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Steve Hackett record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Massinfluence,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Invisible,
The Selecter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
New Age Steppers,
Blake Baxter,
Pantaleimon,
Organ,
Babytalk,
The Offenders,
the Slits,
Livin' Joy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Niagra,
The Gories,
Kevin Saunderson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joy Division,
Bauhaus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yellowson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slick Rick,
Flash Fearless,
Angry Samoans,
Lower 48,
The Misunderstood,
The Searchers,
Television Personalities,
Hasil Adkins,
Bobby Womack,
The Dirtbombs,
Hardrive,
Moss Icon,
The Fall,
David Axelrod,
Wally Richardson,
Skaos,
Eve St. Jones,
Wire,
Roy Ayers,
Sun Ra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Erykah Badu,
DJ Sneak,
Joe Finger,
Symarip,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Monks,
Gong,
The Slits,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Robert Görl,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Swell Maps,
The Mojo Men,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.