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 Guyana and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 arpeggiator 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 The Seeds to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Malaria! 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Isaac Hayes,
Barrington Levy,
Pylon,
The Leaves,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Anakelly,
John Cale,
The Dead C,
Oneida,
Alice Coltrane,
Marc Almond,
The Alarm Clocks,
Anthony Braxton,
Fluxion,
Gabor Szabo,
Japan,
Slick Rick,
Sandy B,
Boredoms,
Camberwell Now,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sight & Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marvin Gaye,
Angry Samoans,
Tres Demented,
Negative Approach,
Absolute Body Control,
Country Joe & The Fish,
June Days,
U.S. Maple,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Radiopuhelimet,
Public Image Ltd.,
Big Daddy Kane,
Banda Bassotti,
Audionom,
The Divine Comedy,
Lower 48,
The Red Krayola,
The Birthday Party,
Unrelated Segments,
Bobby Womack,
The Mojo Men,
Blancmange,
The J.B.'s,
Delta 5,
Albert Ayler,
Scion,
Howard Jones,
Fatback Band,
Unwound,
The Modern Lovers,
the Swans,
CMW,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.