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 Solomon Islands and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fugazi to the punk 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Five Americans,
The Happenings,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Loose Ends,
Zapp,
Crash Course in Science,
the Association,
Flipper,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Qualms,
Freddie Wadling,
Mars,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Connie Case,
Warren Ellis,
Funky Four + One,
cv313,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kayak,
Joey Negro,
Cameo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Porter Ricks,
Ten City,
Anthony Braxton,
the Slits,
Wolf Eyes,
Kas Product,
Monolake,
The Dirtbombs,
The Trojans,
Steve Hackett,
Henry Cow,
Ronnie Foster,
Country Teasers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Faraquet,
Vainqueur,
Eve St. Jones,
Jandek,
Little Man,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ice-T,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Techniques,
Mr. Review,
Lyres,
Fear,
Joy Division,
Pole,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The J.B.'s,
Peter & Gordon,
Mad Mike,
Shuggie Otis,
The Index,
X-102,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.