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 San Marino and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Enemy to the disco 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Kaleidoscope,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Buzzcocks,
DJ Sneak,
The Real Kids,
Dual Sessions,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Zeros,
Tom Boy,
The Residents,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mark Hollis,
UT,
Gang Starr,
The Litter,
Bluetip,
the Normal,
Matthew Bourne,
Marshall Jefferson,
Morten Harket,
Monolake,
Eric Dolphy,
Make Up,
The Offenders,
Bronski Beat,
La Düsseldorf,
Boz Scaggs,
Gabor Szabo,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Cramps,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Radiohead,
The Golliwogs,
The Modern Lovers,
LL Cool J,
Swans,
Sight & Sound,
Byron Stingily,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Peter & Gordon,
Fear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
One Last Wish,
Lakeside,
Kas Product,
Susan Cadogan,
Stetsasonic,
Leonard Cohen,
John Coltrane,
Pere Ubu,
Cameo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Blake Baxter,
The Doobie Brothers,
The American Breed,
Al Stewart,
Bang On A Can,
Gichy Dan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.