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 Ukraine and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Names to the rap 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Niagra,
FM Einheit,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
MDC,
Robert Hood,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Vladislav Delay,
Grauzone,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kenny Larkin,
New Age Steppers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Brick,
Black Sheep,
Flipper,
Dark Day,
Rhythm & Sound,
Simply Red,
DNA,
Mark Hollis,
Masters at Work,
Reagan Youth,
Goldenarms,
Jerry Gold Smith,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alton Ellis,
Jacques Brel,
Bobby Sherman,
Bronski Beat,
Television Personalities,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grey Daturas,
The Index,
Das Ding,
June of 44,
Judy Mowatt,
Oneida,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
T. Rex,
Joyce Sims,
ABC,
Yusef Lateef,
Duran Duran,
Ultravox,
Flash Fearless,
Kurtis Blow,
Tomorrow,
Sandy B,
Warren Ellis,
Neil Young,
Sixth Finger,
Silicon Teens,
Rekid,
Gabor Szabo,
June Days,
Eddi Front,
CMW,
Carl Craig,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.