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 Gabon and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Peter & Gordon to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Invisible. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Negative Approach,
The Count Five,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ronan,
The Smiths,
Eddi Front,
the Slits,
The Pretty Things,
Harry Pussy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ultra Naté,
Newcleus,
The Music Machine,
Anthony Braxton,
Juan Atkins,
Kerri Chandler,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rotary Connection,
Boz Scaggs,
Sun Ra,
X-101,
Smog,
John Holt,
Davy DMX,
The Raincoats,
Roger Hodgson,
Henry Cow,
The Beau Brummels,
kango's stein massive,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Accadde A,
Lungfish,
DNA,
Barrington Levy,
Zapp,
Rekid,
The J.B.'s,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Skaos,
The Gun Club,
Nas,
Cal Tjader,
Gang Green,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joe Finger,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Letta Mbulu,
Hoover,
Tim Buckley,
Roxy Music,
The Knickerbockers,
Scan 7,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.