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 Kazakhstan and from Shanghai.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 theremin 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All Kool G Rap & DJ Polo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Index,
Joe Finger,
The Fire Engines,
Wolf Eyes,
Japan,
Reagan Youth,
Donny Hathaway,
Marcia Griffiths,
Altered Images,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Siglo XX,
the Bar-Kays,
Symarip,
Groovy Waters,
Audionom,
Bobby Sherman,
Terrestrial Tones,
Throbbing Gristle,
B.T. Express,
Thee Headcoats,
JFA,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fat Boys,
Hoover,
CMW,
Bauhaus,
Don Cherry,
Joe Smooth,
Dennis Brown,
Joey Negro,
Scott Walker,
Lucky Dragons,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Dorothy Ashby,
Aloha Tigers,
John Coltrane,
DJ Style,
The Gap Band,
Brick,
Tears for Fears,
X-101,
Agitation Free,
Can,
Lee Hazlewood,
Blancmange,
Echospace,
Max Romeo,
Mark Hollis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scan 7,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Country Teasers,
The Music Machine,
Junior Murvin,
Oblivians,
Joy Division,
the Soft Cell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.