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 Bolivia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Doors to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skriet,
Y Pants,
Boz Scaggs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rufus Thomas,
Frankie Knuckles,
Negative Approach,
The Invisible,
The Gun Club,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Gladiators,
the Swans,
E-Dancer,
Wire,
Pantaleimon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sun City Girls,
Section 25,
The Busters,
Hot Snakes,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sam Rivers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Davy DMX,
Magazine,
Ossler,
Soulsonic Force,
The Birthday Party,
The Alarm Clocks,
DJ Sneak,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
R.M.O.,
Gastr Del Sol,
Vainqueur,
John Cale,
The Barracudas,
Soft Cell,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bootsy Collins,
Royal Trux,
The Real Kids,
Sugar Minott,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Quantec,
OOIOO,
The Blues Magoos,
Tommy Roe,
the Fania All-Stars,
Basic Channel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Hashim,
Quadrant,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Flesh Eaters,
Byron Stingily,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.