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 Czech Republic and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Neon Judgement to the funk 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Radio Birdman,
Patti Smith,
Camberwell Now,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
U.S. Maple,
Scott Walker,
The Pop Group,
Pagans,
Eric B and Rakim,
Crispy Ambulance,
CMW,
Average White Band,
The Busters,
Agitation Free,
Thee Headcoats,
Visage,
Joyce Sims,
Ludus,
The Searchers,
Drive Like Jehu,
K-Klass,
Unrelated Segments,
Livin' Joy,
Prince Buster,
Max Romeo,
Freddie Wadling,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Underground Resistance,
Sex Pistols,
Au Pairs,
Aural Exciters,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Names,
Minor Threat,
The Smiths,
Glambeats Corp.,
F. McDonald,
Danielle Patucci,
Hoover,
Quando Quango,
The Kinks,
Rotary Connection,
Malaria!,
Warren Ellis,
Depeche Mode,
Gregory Isaacs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bill Near,
Reuben Wilson,
Amon Düül,
Chris Corsano,
Graham Central Station,
Throbbing Gristle,
Oneida,
New York Dolls,
Boredoms,
Buzzcocks,
Bush Tetras,
The Skatalites,
Robert Hood,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.