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 Belize and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Gang Green to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Evens,
Radiohead,
Don Cherry,
Banda Bassotti,
The Flesh Eaters,
Subhumans,
Depeche Mode,
Marc Almond,
Kaleidoscope,
The Barracudas,
Eurythmics,
KRS-One,
Rapeman,
Groovy Waters,
John Lydon,
Dennis Brown,
The Last Poets,
Toni Rubio,
David McCallum,
Amazonics,
Brass Construction,
Ultra Naté,
Siglo XX,
The Gun Club,
Icehouse,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
David Axelrod,
X-101,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Inner City,
Barbara Tucker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dirtbombs,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tubeway Army,
Desert Stars,
Minutemen,
Scott Walker,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scan 7,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Danielle Patucci,
The Moleskins,
Rotary Connection,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Normal,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gregory Isaacs,
Skaos,
Con Funk Shun,
Terry Callier,
Letta Mbulu,
Pulsallama,
Faraquet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.