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 Suriname and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Chris & Cosey to the jazz 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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Essential Logic,
Zero Boys,
Deadbeat,
X-Ray Spex,
The Modern Lovers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Y Pants,
FM Einheit,
Half Japanese,
The Cramps,
Johnny Clarke,
Desert Stars,
Average White Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Rod Modell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
X-102,
Godley & Creme,
Joyce Sims,
Malaria!,
CMW,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pagans,
Cal Tjader,
Tommy Roe,
The Fugs,
the Slits,
Don Cherry,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Severed Heads,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
OOIOO,
These Immortal Souls,
Gichy Dan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Cluster,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Altered Images,
Amon Düül II,
Matthew Bourne,
The Dead C,
Chris Corsano,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Marshall Jefferson,
June of 44,
Anthony Braxton,
The American Breed,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ossler,
The Moleskins,
Flash Fearless,
Shuggie Otis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jandek,
Harry Pussy,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.