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 Cape Verde and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sarah Menescal to the jazz 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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
Slick Rick,
The Birthday Party,
Yellowson,
China Crisis,
Easy Going,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joy Division,
Man Eating Sloth,
Delta 5,
T.S.O.L.,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rosa Yemen,
Archie Shepp,
Public Image Ltd.,
Moebius,
Maleditus Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
Magma,
Nirvana,
Section 25,
Deadbeat,
Excepter,
the Soft Cell,
Byron Stingily,
X-101,
Minny Pops,
Ponytail,
Patti Smith,
Matthew Halsall,
The Remains,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Half Japanese,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gil Scott Heron,
These Immortal Souls,
Lyres,
The Skatalites,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sixth Finger,
Todd Rundgren,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Visage,
The Five Americans,
Tubeway Army,
U.S. Maple,
Scrapy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Velvet Underground,
Supertramp,
The Smiths,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Isaac Hayes,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Slits,
The Offenders,
Gang Gang Dance,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.