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 Congo and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Loose Ends to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moby Grape,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Metal Thangz,
Roger Hodgson,
New Age Steppers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Qualms,
The American Breed,
Joy Division,
The Moleskins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Victims,
Fela Kuti,
Tomorrow,
Mantronix,
Eyeless In Gaza,
the Soft Cell,
Zero Boys,
Infiniti,
Man Eating Sloth,
Warren Ellis,
The Toasters,
The Invisible,
Joe Finger,
Nas,
Oneida,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Happenings,
Tropical Tobacco,
Mandrill,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Oblivians,
X-Ray Spex,
Motorama,
The Mummies,
Funkadelic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Brothers Johnson,
Pole,
Todd Terry,
Mark Hollis,
Basic Channel,
Scrapy,
Chris Corsano,
Q65,
Visage,
The Monks,
Colin Newman,
10cc,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Model 500,
Bauhaus,
Ralphi Rosario,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Excepter,
Camouflage,
Fugazi,
Archie Shepp,
Sound Behaviour,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.