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 Rwanda and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Saints to the techno 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Slits,
Public Enemy,
AZ,
Zapp,
Jandek,
Negative Approach,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fela Kuti,
The Names,
Average White Band,
Black Flag,
Soulsonic Force,
Oneida,
Faust,
Thompson Twins,
Black Pus,
Janne Schatter,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Monochrome Set,
Eve St. Jones,
Jeff Lynne,
Jeff Mills,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Franke,
Grey Daturas,
Au Pairs,
Nation of Ulysses,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Walker Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Sexual Harrassment,
Man Parrish,
Cheater Slicks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sandy B,
Zero Boys,
Eric Copeland,
The Searchers,
Quantec,
Khruangbin,
Derrick May,
The Doobie Brothers,
Fear,
Panda Bear,
Schoolly D,
Andrew Hill,
CMW,
Soul II Soul,
Crispy Ambulance,
Laurel Aitken,
Bootsy Collins,
June Days,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Black Moon,
Amon Düül II,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Mojo Men,
Man Eating Sloth,
Spoonie Gee,
Sonic Youth,
Judy Mowatt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.