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 Colombia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Skarface to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Eden Ahbez,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hot Snakes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kerrie Biddell,
U.S. Maple,
Von Mondo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Bronski Beat,
Roger Hodgson,
Minnie Riperton,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Marmalade,
The Smoke,
James White and The Blacks,
Ludus,
Patti Smith,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Arthur Verocai,
Bang On A Can,
Alton Ellis,
Rosa Yemen,
Sarah Menescal,
LL Cool J,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kerri Chandler,
Anthony Braxton,
H. Thieme,
DNA,
Amon Düül II,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
June Days,
The Motions,
Television Personalities,
The Busters,
Echospace,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Neon Judgement,
The Moleskins,
Bobby Sherman,
Whodini,
Electric Prunes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Quadrant,
Sonny Sharrock,
Das Ding,
Eurythmics,
Bobby Byrd,
Pylon,
Marine Girls,
Marshall Jefferson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Man Parrish,
Jeff Mills,
Excepter,
Flash Fearless,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.