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 Ivory Coast 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Swans to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Sonic Youth,
Adolescents,
The Modern Lovers,
Donald Byrd,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Todd Terry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Underground Resistance,
Archie Shepp,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ornette Coleman,
ABBA,
The Fuzztones,
Harmonia,
The Martian,
Mark Hollis,
KRS-One,
Marvin Gaye,
the Association,
Junior Murvin,
Newcleus,
Angry Samoans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Grauzone,
Bush Tetras,
Sonny Sharrock,
Patti Smith,
Wire,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
ABC,
Audionom,
The Raincoats,
Stockholm Monsters,
Symarip,
Masters at Work,
Half Japanese,
The Monochrome Set,
Jerry's Kids,
Rekid,
The Index,
Peter and Kerry,
Grandmaster Flash,
Susan Cadogan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lightning Bolt,
Brand Nubian,
Bizarre Inc.,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
E-Dancer,
Ultravox,
Skriet,
Subhumans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James White and The Blacks,
David Axelrod,
Throbbing Gristle,
Oblivians,
Hashim,
Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep.
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.