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 Montenegro and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hasil Adkins to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Count Five. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Roy Ayers,
Soft Cell,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Beau Brummels,
Nik Kershaw,
Donny Hathaway,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Evens,
Desert Stars,
Rites of Spring,
Flipper,
Television,
Eden Ahbez,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter and Kerry,
Lungfish,
Funky Four + One,
the Association,
Alphaville,
Deadbeat,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Colin Newman,
Malaria!,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Offenders,
Eli Mardock,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kurtis Blow,
Joyce Sims,
The Modern Lovers,
Bob Dylan,
Sight & Sound,
The Victims,
Joe Smooth,
Silicon Teens,
Sonic Youth,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Grauzone,
Eric Dolphy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Guru Guru,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lightning Bolt,
Agitation Free,
Wire,
The Gladiators,
Wally Richardson,
Bobby Byrd,
The Busters,
Jeru the Damaja,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Hoover,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.