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 Uruguay and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Isaac Hayes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ultimate Spinach,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Los Fastidios,
Letta Mbulu,
Aloha Tigers,
Symarip,
Anthony Braxton,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nik Kershaw,
EPMD,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soulsonic Force,
Suicide,
Minnie Riperton,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Barrington Levy,
The Raincoats,
Maurizio,
Donald Byrd,
James White and The Blacks,
Easy Going,
Lindisfarne,
Unwound,
cv313,
Don Cherry,
8 Eyed Spy,
Laurel Aitken,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Surgeon,
L. Decosne,
Vladislav Delay,
Aaron Thompson,
Angry Samoans,
Jeff Lynne,
The Standells,
Banda Bassotti,
Barclay James Harvest,
Roy Ayers,
The Doors,
Excepter,
Yazoo,
Anakelly,
Essential Logic,
Brass Construction,
Altered Images,
Alton Ellis,
Franke,
Ice-T,
Deepchord,
Tropical Tobacco,
Make Up,
A Certain Ratio,
Andrew Hill,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.