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 Korea North and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 The Sisters of Mercy. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Peter & Gordon,
The Toasters,
Goldenarms,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eve St. Jones,
Carl Craig,
Con Funk Shun,
Big Daddy Kane,
Flipper,
Steve Hackett,
Pantytec,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Byron Stingily,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dennis Brown,
DNA,
Fatback Band,
Alphaville,
Nils Olav,
The Star Department,
Adolescents,
Gabor Szabo,
KRS-One,
Crispian St. Peters,
Panda Bear,
Cybotron,
Fluxion,
Fat Boys,
Jacob Miller,
Outsiders,
The Modern Lovers,
The J.B.'s,
the Normal,
La Düsseldorf,
Crime,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Johnny Clarke,
Bill Wells,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fall,
Nik Kershaw,
Soulsonic Force,
Technova,
Chris & Cosey,
Flash Fearless,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gichy Dan,
Scion,
Sarah Menescal,
Idris Muhammad,
Al Stewart,
Agitation Free,
Hashim,
Janne Schatter,
Davy DMX,
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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.