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 Namibia and from Lille.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Jandek to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Sad Lovers and Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sonic Youth,
Faraquet,
the Human League,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lalo Schifrin,
Skaos,
Eric Dolphy,
Aloha Tigers,
Wally Richardson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bootsy Collins,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Byron Stingily,
The Gun Club,
Talk Talk,
Television,
Niagra,
X-101,
Thompson Twins,
Fela Kuti,
The Invisible,
Tropical Tobacco,
Metal Thangz,
Skriet,
Yaz,
The Offenders,
Tim Buckley,
Radiohead,
Joe Finger,
Maurizio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tommy Roe,
The Golliwogs,
Lightning Bolt,
Slick Rick,
Glambeats Corp.,
Joey Negro,
Quantec,
One Last Wish,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Slackers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Litter,
Can,
The Knickerbockers,
Nick Fraelich,
Porter Ricks,
The Mojo Men,
The Music Machine,
Bronski Beat,
Yazoo,
the Slits,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cecil Taylor,
Lucky Dragons,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Young Rascals,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.