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 Comoros and from Salvador.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Sao Paulo.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Janne Schatter to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Monks,
Eli Mardock,
Slick Rick,
Young Marble Giants,
Michelle Simonal,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pet Shop Boys,
Charles Mingus,
UT,
Masters at Work,
Vladislav Delay,
Youth Brigade,
Goldenarms,
Johnny Clarke,
Jacob Miller,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Skatalites,
Matthew Halsall,
Sandy B,
DJ Style,
Dead Boys,
The Cure,
Amon Düül II,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gregory Isaacs,
Big Daddy Kane,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hashim,
Leonard Cohen,
The Fortunes,
Warsaw,
Janne Schatter,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cecil Taylor,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cal Tjader,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Graham Central Station,
Brand Nubian,
The Stooges,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Birthday Party,
The Buckinghams,
Cymande,
Intrusion,
Tres Demented,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-101,
The Music Machine,
Skarface,
Bobby Sherman,
Skaos,
Max Romeo,
Second Layer,
The Blues Magoos,
Bronski Beat,
Arcadia,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.