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 Bahamas and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Basic Channel to the disco 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 Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
Brass Construction,
Spoonie Gee,
Kurtis Blow,
The Shadows of Knight,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Trumans Water,
Yusef Lateef,
Kas Product,
Crash Course in Science,
DJ Sneak,
Heaven 17,
Scan 7,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jawbox,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
U.S. Maple,
Bob Dylan,
Erykah Badu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
EPMD,
Lightning Bolt,
Soulsonic Force,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jeff Lynne,
Moebius,
Nils Olav,
The Sonics,
Harmonia,
Desert Stars,
Kaleidoscope,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Star Department,
Althea and Donna,
Loose Ends,
Sällskapet,
Chris Corsano,
The Toasters,
Thee Headcoats,
Flash Fearless,
Joy Division,
The Cramps,
T. Rex,
Gabor Szabo,
Minor Threat,
Kayak,
Average White Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sonic Youth,
Brick,
Robert Hood,
Adolescents,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Slits,
Dual Sessions,
Jacob Miller,
Lower 48,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.