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 Bolivia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Max Romeo to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Youth Brigade,
Avey Tare,
The Mummies,
Glenn Branca,
Circle Jerks,
The Dave Clark Five,
Joy Division,
Gil Scott Heron,
OOIOO,
Lucky Dragons,
Bootsy Collins,
Slick Rick,
New Order,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Flamin' Groovies,
Little Man,
Supertramp,
Anakelly,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Slave,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gang Starr,
Flipper,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dawn Penn,
Davy DMX,
Mad Mike,
Henry Cow,
Fluxion,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ultravox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Model 500,
Rufus Thomas,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Visage,
Morten Harket,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Names,
Alton Ellis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Icehouse,
the Swans,
Pylon,
Subhumans,
Black Bananas,
Soul II Soul,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Cale,
The Birthday Party,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jimmy McGriff,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bauhaus,
Gang of Four,
Roger Hodgson,
Quando Quango,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.