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 Andorra and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the sitar 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 Michelle Simonal to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Kinks,
Skaos,
Supertramp,
Jandek,
Moby Grape,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Hot Snakes,
Minor Threat,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Slick Rick,
Lou Reed,
Al Stewart,
Lucky Dragons,
Japan,
Television Personalities,
Hasil Adkins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bill Near,
The Mummies,
Jeff Mills,
The Fortunes,
The Blues Magoos,
Todd Terry,
The Sound,
Rufus Thomas,
The Misunderstood,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
kango's stein massive,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scion,
Essential Logic,
Aaron Thompson,
Ultravox,
Ice-T,
The Cure,
The Residents,
Eurythmics,
The Selecter,
Darondo,
Reuben Wilson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
8 Eyed Spy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bluetip,
Pharoah Sanders,
Prince Buster,
Chrome,
The Pretty Things,
Bobby Womack,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Anakelly,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Porter Ricks,
Rites of Spring,
Sexual Harrassment,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.