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 Nepal and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator 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 Peter & Gordon to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Deakin,
Fugazi,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Anthony Braxton,
Connie Case,
Guru Guru,
Nik Kershaw,
Kenny Larkin,
A Certain Ratio,
Ken Boothe,
D'Angelo,
Y Pants,
ABBA,
David Axelrod,
Second Layer,
Alphaville,
Scan 7,
Sparks,
kango's stein massive,
Adolescents,
Lalo Schifrin,
Radiohead,
The Human League,
the Slits,
Jeff Mills,
Letta Mbulu,
Barrington Levy,
Kayak,
Warsaw,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mad Mike,
Bush Tetras,
Laurel Aitken,
Matthew Bourne,
the Fania All-Stars,
Hasil Adkins,
Reagan Youth,
Mission of Burma,
Stereo Dub,
Amon Düül II,
Hardrive,
The Monks,
Boz Scaggs,
Steve Hackett,
The Real Kids,
Darondo,
Throbbing Gristle,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Can,
10cc,
T.S.O.L.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pantytec,
Cluster,
Altered Images,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fat Boys,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Andrew Hill,
Sound Behaviour,
Wings,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.