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 Ukraine and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 rhodes 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 Cheater Slicks 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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Essential Logic,
Joy Division,
Adolescents,
The Searchers,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Barracudas,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Cymande,
Section 25,
Robert Hood,
Judy Mowatt,
Henry Cow,
John Holt,
Marc Almond,
Terry Callier,
OOIOO,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jandek,
Tres Demented,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fluxion,
David Bowie,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soft Machine,
Deepchord,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hoover,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tom Boy,
Loose Ends,
Alton Ellis,
Barbara Tucker,
Neil Young,
Youth Brigade,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Laurel Aitken,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Con Funk Shun,
the Sonics,
The Associates,
The Moleskins,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lyres,
Main Source,
Iggy Pop,
Can,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
DJ Style,
The Dave Clark Five,
JFA,
Scrapy,
Joe Smooth,
Lucky Dragons,
Liliput,
Fugazi,
Peter and Kerry,
Bootsy Collins,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.