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 Serbia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lyon.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ronnie Foster to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo 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 Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nick Fraelich,
Hoover,
The Gories,
The Martian,
Loose Ends,
Duran Duran,
Joy Division,
Panda Bear,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Country Teasers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Coltrane,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ponytail,
Skaos,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Angels of Light,
Avey Tare,
Sonic Youth,
Cybotron,
Reuben Wilson,
T. Rex,
Wings,
Rod Modell,
Second Layer,
Roxette,
Mission of Burma,
The Fall,
Vainqueur,
Pagans,
Agent Orange,
Brand Nubian,
DNA,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Selecter,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bang On A Can,
Tubeway Army,
Delta 5,
Scrapy,
Essential Logic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
World's Most,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
cv313,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Peter and Kerry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nas,
Subhumans,
Lyres,
Mantronix,
The Motions,
The Electric Prunes,
Easy Going,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Spoonie Gee,
Little Man,
Youth Brigade,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.