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 Colombia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Cheater Slicks to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Soulsonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Audionom,
Johnny Osbourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Birthday Party,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Delon & Dalcan,
Minutemen,
Surgeon,
Chrome,
Vladislav Delay,
Todd Rundgren,
Desert Stars,
Brass Construction,
The Kinks,
Grey Daturas,
John Foxx,
Technova,
The Doors,
Toni Rubio,
Soul II Soul,
The Offenders,
Sun City Girls,
Bob Dylan,
Adolescents,
The Monochrome Set,
The Blues Magoos,
Agent Orange,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
Alton Ellis,
Index,
Radiopuhelimet,
Theoretical Girls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wally Richardson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Interpol,
Maleditus Sound,
Glambeats Corp.,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
David Bowie,
Henry Cow,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Slave,
Blake Baxter,
The Gap Band,
Ponytail,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gladiators,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lightning Bolt,
New York Dolls,
Fear,
The Star Department,
The Velvet Underground,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.