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 Zimbabwe and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Leonard Cohen to the grime 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick May record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
the Fania All-Stars,
Donny Hathaway,
Porter Ricks,
Carl Craig,
David McCallum,
Cameo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Max Romeo,
Cymande,
Kool Moe Dee,
Amon Düül II,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lou Christie,
The Fugs,
Eric Dolphy,
Stereo Dub,
Brand Nubian,
Monolake,
The Toasters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Peter & Gordon,
Theoretical Girls,
Ice-T,
Mission of Burma,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mark Hollis,
H. Thieme,
Don Cherry,
Depeche Mode,
Pet Shop Boys,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Doors,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Tres Demented,
Sonny Sharrock,
Derrick May,
Gichy Dan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Star Department,
Popol Vuh,
Metal Thangz,
Gong,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Aloha Tigers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Stetsasonic,
Kaleidoscope,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Masters at Work,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
kango's stein massive,
Black Sheep,
Joy Division,
cv313,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pagans,
The Offenders,
The Beau Brummels,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.