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 Zambia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Gun Club to the grime 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
The Standells,
ABC,
Matthew Bourne,
Amazonics,
Soft Machine,
Deepchord,
Black Pus,
Outsiders,
Skarface,
Electric Prunes,
Tres Demented,
Yaz,
Panda Bear,
Aloha Tigers,
Soft Cell,
Talk Talk,
Lower 48,
One Last Wish,
Amon Düül,
Brothers Johnson,
Barrington Levy,
The Real Kids,
Letta Mbulu,
Thee Headcoats,
Cybotron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rekid,
Absolute Body Control,
Drexciya,
Curtis Mayfield,
Saccharine Trust,
Johnny Clarke,
The New Christs,
The Barracudas,
Girls At Our Best!,
Shuggie Otis,
The Offenders,
Joe Smooth,
The Monochrome Set,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Procol Harum,
Aswad,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Doors,
The American Breed,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Symarip,
La Düsseldorf,
Blossom Toes,
Archie Shepp,
Hardrive,
Pylon,
Essential Logic,
Niagra,
The Misunderstood,
Newcleus,
B.T. Express,
The Raincoats,
Guru Guru,
the Swans,
The Leaves,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.