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 Armenia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Glambeats Corp. to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Agent Orange,
Moebius,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Pop Group,
Average White Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Main Source,
James White and The Blacks,
Oneida,
Shuggie Otis,
Amon Düül,
Cybotron,
Technova,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Todd Terry,
Sight & Sound,
In Retrospect,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rhythm & Sound,
Wasted Youth,
Camouflage,
John Cale,
The Music Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
This Heat,
Roger Hodgson,
Audionom,
Bad Manners,
The Dirtbombs,
Davy DMX,
Johnny Clarke,
Nirvana,
Sonny Sharrock,
Crispy Ambulance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Oblivians,
Das Ding,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fuzztones,
Amon Düül II,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ice-T,
The Cramps,
John Lydon,
Henry Cow,
Wolf Eyes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kas Product,
Mars,
Guru Guru,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Reuben Wilson,
Soulsonic Force,
Metal Thangz,
The Toasters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soft Machine,
MC5,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.