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 Macedonia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Judy Mowatt to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Chris Corsano. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Colin Newman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Don Cherry,
Rotary Connection,
the Germs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Echospace,
Pagans,
Danielle Patucci,
Delta 5,
Infiniti,
Black Flag,
Zapp,
Freddie Wadling,
Gregory Isaacs,
Byron Stingily,
the Normal,
Gerry Rafferty,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lakeside,
The Kinks,
Black Sheep,
Gang of Four,
Todd Rundgren,
Skarface,
DJ Style,
Anthony Braxton,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jandek,
Rites of Spring,
Fear,
K-Klass,
kango's stein massive,
Smog,
Rekid,
Erykah Badu,
48th St. Collective,
Marvin Gaye,
Ossler,
Ralphi Rosario,
Fad Gadget,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Moleskins,
EPMD,
Pierre Henry,
The Searchers,
Roy Ayers,
Agent Orange,
Wasted Youth,
Amon Düül II,
Derrick Morgan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sandy B,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Harry Pussy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Radio Birdman,
Chris & Cosey,
The Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Motorama,
The Dave Clark Five,
Icehouse,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.