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 Mauritius and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Duran Duran to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Evens,
Black Sheep,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gun Club,
Bang On A Can,
Carl Craig,
Stereo Dub,
Bluetip,
The Barracudas,
Piero Umiliani,
Supertramp,
LL Cool J,
Inner City,
The Count Five,
Avey Tare,
Cybotron,
the Association,
Q and Not U,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Smiths,
Basic Channel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jerry's Kids,
OOIOO,
Shuggie Otis,
Stiv Bators,
Youth Brigade,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Minnie Riperton,
The Angels of Light,
La Düsseldorf,
Reagan Youth,
Anthony Braxton,
A Certain Ratio,
Bobby Byrd,
Marmalade,
Popol Vuh,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gang Gang Dance,
10cc,
Marvin Gaye,
Niagra,
Eddi Front,
Lebanon Hanover,
Smog,
Japan,
Ituana,
The Last Poets,
The Saints,
Neil Young,
Unwound,
Amazonics,
Television Personalities,
Maurizio,
Mars,
the Soft Cell,
Juan Atkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.