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 Micronesia and from Accra.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Trumans Water to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The J.B.'s,
Nils Olav,
Von Mondo,
Black Moon,
Vladislav Delay,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Mummies,
OOIOO,
Soul II Soul,
Jandek,
EPMD,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Beau Brummels,
Charles Mingus,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Smoke,
Stiv Bators,
The Star Department,
E-Dancer,
Tubeway Army,
Ohio Players,
The Fall,
Eyeless In Gaza,
kango's stein massive,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Livin' Joy,
Kenny Larkin,
Rod Modell,
Hashim,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fatback Band,
Eric Dolphy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eden Ahbez,
the Bar-Kays,
New Age Steppers,
Maleditus Sound,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lyres,
the Swans,
Harmonia,
Ralphi Rosario,
MC5,
Faust,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ultravox,
MDC,
Scott Walker,
Masters at Work,
The Blackbyrds,
Todd Rundgren,
Sarah Menescal,
Ice-T,
Josef K,
The Buckinghams,
Funky Four + One,
Heaven 17,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Glenn Branca,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.