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 Azerbaijan and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Brass Construction to the rock 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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soul II Soul,
The Move,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joensuu 1685,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Swans,
Lou Christie,
Blake Baxter,
A Certain Ratio,
Joy Division,
Eden Ahbez,
Niagra,
Lightning Bolt,
Sällskapet,
10cc,
T.S.O.L.,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sandy B,
The Slackers,
The Raincoats,
Scott Walker,
Technova,
The Skatalites,
The Evens,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eli Mardock,
Tomorrow,
Roxy Music,
The Doobie Brothers,
Silicon Teens,
Cymande,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
X-101,
Bobby Womack,
Shoche,
The Real Kids,
David McCallum,
Isaac Hayes,
Sex Pistols,
The Fugs,
Japan,
Joe Finger,
Ice-T,
Sugar Minott,
Livin' Joy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
kango's stein massive,
Brick,
The Gap Band,
The Monks,
Mantronix,
The Cowsills,
John Coltrane,
AZ,
Robert Wyatt,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.