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 Japan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 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 Anthony Braxton to the crunk 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
The Smiths,
Bobby Sherman,
Ronnie Foster,
The Mummies,
The Knickerbockers,
The Leaves,
AZ,
David Axelrod,
Aloha Tigers,
Sixth Finger,
10cc,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Johnny Osbourne,
CMW,
Faraquet,
Lucky Dragons,
T.S.O.L.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dual Sessions,
The Pop Group,
Eve St. Jones,
The Stooges,
Kool Moe Dee,
Suburban Knight,
The Searchers,
Deadbeat,
ABBA,
Cymande,
Swans,
Mantronix,
Amazonics,
Rapeman,
Archie Shepp,
Crime,
Au Pairs,
Tom Boy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Agent Orange,
Lalann,
The Divine Comedy,
Popol Vuh,
Drexciya,
Mark Hollis,
Zapp,
Supertramp,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Inner City,
The Slits,
D'Angelo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kurtis Blow,
Be Bop Deluxe,
June of 44,
The Residents,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chrome,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Monochrome Set,
Hoover,
John Lydon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.