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 Oman and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Easy Going to the rock 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slackers,
Susan Cadogan,
Rakim,
New Age Steppers,
Todd Terry,
Flash Fearless,
The Remains,
T.S.O.L.,
PIL,
Rapeman,
Ronan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Organ,
Outsiders,
Freddie Wadling,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Sonics,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ossler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alice Coltrane,
Porter Ricks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Traffic Nightmare,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Excepter,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
EPMD,
Joensuu 1685,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Quantec,
Drexciya,
Sound Behaviour,
Warsaw,
Radio Birdman,
Pylon,
Grandmaster Flash,
Guru Guru,
Severed Heads,
Erykah Badu,
Bang On A Can,
Vainqueur,
David Bowie,
Ponytail,
Scott Walker,
Sam Rivers,
Intrusion,
Neil Young,
Matthew Bourne,
The Red Krayola,
China Crisis,
Zero Boys,
Saccharine Trust,
The Gap Band,
Tom Boy,
The Black Dice,
Schoolly D,
Piero Umiliani,
Marc Almond,
Subhumans,
Michelle Simonal,
Brand Nubian,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.