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 Seychelles and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco 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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultra Naté record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Anthony Braxton,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Crash Course in Science,
a-ha,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Knickerbockers,
Scott Walker,
The Dave Clark Five,
Glambeats Corp.,
Babytalk,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Amon Düül,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
Symarip,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Depeche Mode,
Minnie Riperton,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lucky Dragons,
Tres Demented,
Crispian St. Peters,
Delta 5,
This Heat,
The Vogues,
Lyres,
Make Up,
Porter Ricks,
The Invisible,
The Martian,
The Victims,
Robert Wyatt,
Blake Baxter,
Derrick May,
Rod Modell,
Swell Maps,
The Associates,
Jimmy McGriff,
Warsaw,
Sight & Sound,
Fugazi,
Robert Hood,
Zero Boys,
Q65,
Lindisfarne,
MDC,
The Slits,
Metal Thangz,
Model 500,
Crooked Eye,
Marc Almond,
Pere Ubu,
ABBA,
Vladislav Delay,
Simply Red,
Bob Dylan,
Mission of Burma,
The Fugs,
Joyce Sims,
UT,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.