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 Poland and from Delhi.
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 Stockholm and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Public Image Ltd. to the dance 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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Black Flag,
Todd Rundgren,
Kevin Saunderson,
D'Angelo,
Spandau Ballet,
The Remains,
Basic Channel,
Minny Pops,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Derrick Morgan,
the Bar-Kays,
Porter Ricks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Vogues,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Tremeloes,
China Crisis,
Janne Schatter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Normal,
the Fania All-Stars,
U.S. Maple,
Black Bananas,
Michelle Simonal,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Toasters,
Eli Mardock,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Faust,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Urselle,
Albert Ayler,
K-Klass,
Bush Tetras,
Howard Jones,
Motorama,
Unwound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Associates,
The Dave Clark Five,
Outsiders,
Sunsets and Hearts,
T.S.O.L.,
The Searchers,
F. McDonald,
Minnie Riperton,
Blossom Toes,
Frankie Knuckles,
Model 500,
Youth Brigade,
Metal Thangz,
Electric Prunes,
Masters at Work,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Laurel Aitken,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Angels of Light,
Harmonia,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.