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 Equatorial Guinea and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Mexico City and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 theremin 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 Selector Dub Narcotic to the punk 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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nation of Ulysses,
Grey Daturas,
Fugazi,
Mary Jane Girls,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Q and Not U,
Pulsallama,
Skarface,
Kerrie Biddell,
Hasil Adkins,
The Moody Blues,
Kaleidoscope,
Theoretical Girls,
Infiniti,
Rufus Thomas,
Boogie Down Productions,
Alice Coltrane,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Count Five,
The Searchers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Human League,
Cluster,
Aloha Tigers,
Rotary Connection,
Sällskapet,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Sonics,
Harpers Bizarre,
JFA,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dorothy Ashby,
Zapp,
Neil Young,
Jeru the Damaja,
Y Pants,
Avey Tare,
Duran Duran,
Easy Going,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
James White and The Blacks,
Scan 7,
The New Christs,
Arcadia,
Michelle Simonal,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Reagan Youth,
Funky Four + One,
The Trojans,
John Coltrane,
Alton Ellis,
Wasted Youth,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pantaleimon,
Bronski Beat,
The Wake,
Ken Boothe,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.