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 Tuvalu and from Tokyo.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the dance 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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Lalann,
Swell Maps,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Gladiators,
Rod Modell,
Lakeside,
Jandek,
Buzzcocks,
Fugazi,
Lyres,
Echospace,
Matthew Halsall,
Soulsonic Force,
Index,
Rhythm & Sound,
X-101,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The J.B.'s,
KRS-One,
Youth Brigade,
Soft Machine,
Wire,
Gang of Four,
The Birthday Party,
John Holt,
Carl Craig,
Sparks,
Sister Nancy,
Byron Stingily,
Motorama,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roxy Music,
Grauzone,
The United States of America,
Black Sheep,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Max Romeo,
Malaria!,
the Normal,
James White and The Blacks,
Vladislav Delay,
Faust,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Crooked Eye,
Juan Atkins,
Pagans,
Loose Ends,
Pantytec,
Rites of Spring,
Porter Ricks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Germs,
Bootsy Collins,
CMW,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.