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 Solomon Islands and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 rhodes 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 Janne Schatter to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Count Five. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Germs,
Average White Band,
Young Marble Giants,
The Raincoats,
The Fall,
Depeche Mode,
Hoover,
Ludus,
D'Angelo,
The Real Kids,
Funkadelic,
The Gap Band,
Sandy B,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pylon,
Silicon Teens,
Pet Shop Boys,
MC5,
Minor Threat,
The Invisible,
Crooked Eye,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Absolute Body Control,
48th St. Collective,
The Five Americans,
Aloha Tigers,
Dorothy Ashby,
JFA,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Andrew Hill,
Sound Behaviour,
Eric Dolphy,
Q65,
Black Bananas,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scan 7,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Swans,
Tropical Tobacco,
This Heat,
Ornette Coleman,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kenny Larkin,
Warsaw,
Jacob Miller,
Outsiders,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pantaleimon,
DJ Sneak,
Country Teasers,
Suicide,
Mo-Dettes,
Iggy Pop,
Malaria!,
Main Source,
New Order,
Popol Vuh,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sonic Youth,
Cameo,
Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim.
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.