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 Guatemala and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 808 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 The Gap Band to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eve St. Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Walker Brothers,
The Grass Roots,
Franke,
Talk Talk,
Unwound,
Royal Trux,
Dorothy Ashby,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Gap Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobby Womack,
The Zeros,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lucky Dragons,
Kerri Chandler,
DJ Style,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rotary Connection,
Tommy Roe,
Alison Limerick,
Kool Moe Dee,
Quando Quango,
Massinfluence,
CMW,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Television Personalities,
Essential Logic,
Throbbing Gristle,
a-ha,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Electric Prunes,
Ultra Naté,
The Knickerbockers,
Electric Prunes,
Jandek,
Deadbeat,
Erykah Badu,
Ronnie Foster,
Glenn Branca,
Girls At Our Best!,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ralphi Rosario,
John Lydon,
Rekid,
Mantronix,
Funky Four + One,
Barbara Tucker,
Audionom,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Human League,
Faraquet,
The Index,
Zapp,
Barry Ungar,
The American Breed,
Bush Tetras,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.