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 Sudan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 harpsichord 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Aloha Tigers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Reuben Wilson,
Bauhaus,
Brick,
Eurythmics,
Sonic Youth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scientists,
the Normal,
Main Source,
Los Fastidios,
The Red Krayola,
Barbara Tucker,
Derrick Morgan,
The Blackbyrds,
Magazine,
Vladislav Delay,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Neon Judgement,
Darondo,
The Names,
Pussy Galore,
The Real Kids,
The Moody Blues,
Tim Buckley,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
John Lydon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Flash Fearless,
Supertramp,
H. Thieme,
Dead Boys,
Nas,
Suicide,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Tremeloes,
Crash Course in Science,
Pierre Henry,
Nick Fraelich,
Lower 48,
Bill Near,
Half Japanese,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
U.S. Maple,
Cameo,
The Dead C,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Flag,
Gabor Szabo,
Organ,
Faust,
The Slackers,
Nils Olav,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jawbox,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.