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 Slovenia and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 rhodes 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 MDC to the funk 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Barbara Tucker,
Negative Approach,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kenny Larkin,
Quantec,
John Cale,
Isaac Hayes,
Qualms,
The Zeros,
Todd Rundgren,
Marvin Gaye,
The Cure,
Television Personalities,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Niagra,
Sällskapet,
Aswad,
Danielle Patucci,
Little Man,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ossler,
The Beau Brummels,
Lucky Dragons,
Wire,
The Index,
Outsiders,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Agitation Free,
Youth Brigade,
Lightning Bolt,
The Smiths,
Ash Ra Tempel,
E-Dancer,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tears for Fears,
Harry Pussy,
Nation of Ulysses,
B.T. Express,
Suburban Knight,
Camberwell Now,
Eric Dolphy,
Public Enemy,
Scan 7,
Alice Coltrane,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Connie Case,
Aural Exciters,
DNA,
Severed Heads,
DJ Style,
The Happenings,
Don Cherry,
Judy Mowatt,
In Retrospect,
The Dirtbombs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ohio Players,
The Remains,
Bobby Womack,
R.M.O.,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.