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 Serbia and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum 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 Arthur Verocai to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Fugazi,
Eden Ahbez,
The Star Department,
Youth Brigade,
Unrelated Segments,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Todd Rundgren,
Cheater Slicks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soft Cell,
Excepter,
Surgeon,
UT,
L. Decosne,
The United States of America,
ABBA,
Stetsasonic,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tubeway Army,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Black Bananas,
Ronnie Foster,
Neil Young,
MDC,
Metal Thangz,
Monks,
Pierre Henry,
Rakim,
Sun City Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sparks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Average White Band,
Howard Jones,
Jawbox,
Basic Channel,
Deakin,
Shuggie Otis,
48th St. Collective,
The Busters,
Cybotron,
Nils Olav,
Patti Smith,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jeff Mills,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Buckinghams,
Icehouse,
Eli Mardock,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ludus,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Flag,
U.S. Maple,
Scientists,
Hot Snakes,
Blake Baxter,
Grey Daturas,
MC5,
Don Cherry,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.