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 Korea South and from Beijing.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the theremin 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 Girls At Our Best! to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Franke,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crash Course in Science,
Bobby Byrd,
Absolute Body Control,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Sonics,
Sound Behaviour,
Arthur Verocai,
Basic Channel,
Flipper,
The American Breed,
Joensuu 1685,
The Pop Group,
Clear Light,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Barbara Tucker,
Surgeon,
Ken Boothe,
EPMD,
Index,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ronnie Foster,
Joey Negro,
Section 25,
Robert Görl,
The Tremeloes,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bronski Beat,
Livin' Joy,
Young Marble Giants,
Piero Umiliani,
Saccharine Trust,
Aswad,
Byron Stingily,
Aloha Tigers,
Subhumans,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pere Ubu,
Jerry's Kids,
Bobby Sherman,
the Germs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brass Construction,
Technova,
Steve Hackett,
Outsiders,
Gang Gang Dance,
Von Mondo,
DNA,
The Zeros,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Country Teasers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Flesh Eaters,
Little Man,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bizarre Inc.,
Alton Ellis,
Sex Pistols,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.