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 Bahrain and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 JFA to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Maleditus Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
The Zeros,
Nico,
Rekid,
Leonard Cohen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Last Poets,
Bang On A Can,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantaleimon,
Lalann,
Reuben Wilson,
The Monks,
Lindisfarne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Swans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Monochrome Set,
Television,
Faust,
Liliput,
Nick Fraelich,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Walker Brothers,
Derrick Morgan,
Adolescents,
Wally Richardson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Matthew Bourne,
cv313,
Urselle,
The Techniques,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Deakin,
Andrew Hill,
KRS-One,
Ponytail,
New Order,
Charles Mingus,
Nas,
The Golliwogs,
Gong,
The Leaves,
Public Enemy,
Little Man,
The New Christs,
Yellowson,
Sixth Finger,
The Searchers,
Juan Atkins,
La Düsseldorf,
Judy Mowatt,
Terrestrial Tones,
Amazonics,
Zapp,
Eurythmics,
Pylon,
ABC,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
kango's stein massive,
The Gladiators,
Ultravox,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.