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 Djibouti and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb 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 China Crisis to the funk 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kool Moe Dee,
La Düsseldorf,
the Sonics,
New Order,
Infiniti,
EPMD,
Public Image Ltd.,
CMW,
The Pretty Things,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sex Pistols,
Fela Kuti,
Terry Callier,
Von Mondo,
Darondo,
Lou Christie,
The Young Rascals,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fugazi,
The Cure,
Tropical Tobacco,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fifty Foot Hose,
L. Decosne,
Graham Central Station,
Glambeats Corp.,
Idris Muhammad,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alice Coltrane,
Davy DMX,
Kaleidoscope,
Glenn Branca,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jawbox,
Panda Bear,
Avey Tare,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eric Dolphy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stetsasonic,
Ultravox,
Sound Behaviour,
Reagan Youth,
Supertramp,
Mark Hollis,
Chris & Cosey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Faust,
a-ha,
John Coltrane,
The Fuzztones,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Cramps,
A Certain Ratio,
Urselle,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.