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 Romania and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb 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 Peter & Gordon to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris Corsano record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Amazonics,
Boz Scaggs,
Babytalk,
Joe Finger,
Rapeman,
Newcleus,
Hasil Adkins,
Visage,
Kerri Chandler,
Flipper,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Japan,
Ossler,
Idris Muhammad,
The Motions,
The Happenings,
Alice Coltrane,
Negative Approach,
Rod Modell,
Sight & Sound,
Erasure,
The Fuzztones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lyres,
The Stooges,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bauhaus,
cv313,
The Real Kids,
Jeff Mills,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Blossom Toes,
Stetsasonic,
MDC,
Lakeside,
Henry Cow,
Qualms,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Buzzcocks,
Pere Ubu,
Deakin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fluxion,
Yusef Lateef,
Marmalade,
Inner City,
Nas,
the Slits,
Archie Shepp,
Stiv Bators,
Todd Rundgren,
Sam Rivers,
Television Personalities,
The Grass Roots,
Boogie Down Productions,
U.S. Maple,
Gang of Four,
Godley & Creme,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.