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 Japan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Barbara Tucker 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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Brick,
Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
U.S. Maple,
This Heat,
Faraquet,
Liliput,
Whodini,
Babytalk,
Henry Cow,
The Velvet Underground,
Derrick Morgan,
Nation of Ulysses,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alton Ellis,
Surgeon,
OOIOO,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Accadde A,
Parry Music,
Soft Machine,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Boredoms,
Buzzcocks,
Newcleus,
Avey Tare,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bill Wells,
Main Source,
Nik Kershaw,
The Knickerbockers,
LL Cool J,
Chrome,
Traffic Nightmare,
Hashim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Grauzone,
Bauhaus,
The Music Machine,
Peter & Gordon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Gap Band,
Funkadelic,
Grey Daturas,
Minutemen,
Lindisfarne,
Can,
David McCallum,
Tomorrow,
Robert Görl,
Barry Ungar,
the Slits,
Brothers Johnson,
Basic Channel,
The Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Smoke,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kas Product,
EPMD,
The Buckinghams,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.