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 Indonesia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 sitar 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 Interpol to the funk 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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Jimmy McGriff,
Peter & Gordon,
The Busters,
Danielle Patucci,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sam Rivers,
The Black Dice,
Funkadelic,
Avey Tare,
Crime,
Skaos,
Man Parrish,
Tim Buckley,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lyres,
Sight & Sound,
Von Mondo,
The Doors,
Lee Hazlewood,
Essential Logic,
Scion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marc Almond,
Anthony Braxton,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Alison Limerick,
Barclay James Harvest,
Excepter,
Eric Copeland,
The Sonics,
The Tremeloes,
Todd Terry,
Iggy Pop,
Arab on Radar,
The Count Five,
The Gun Club,
Dual Sessions,
The Toasters,
Eli Mardock,
The Monks,
Barbara Tucker,
The Selecter,
Depeche Mode,
Sugar Minott,
Agitation Free,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Music Machine,
Interpol,
Robert Hood,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Wasted Youth,
Little Man,
The Monochrome Set,
Al Stewart,
Max Romeo,
Yaz,
CMW,
Pantaleimon,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.