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 Greece and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Mumbai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Monks to the rock 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pagans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Jawbox,
Wolf Eyes,
The Cowsills,
Dead Boys,
Index,
Swans,
Wire,
Flamin' Groovies,
Black Pus,
Eddi Front,
Pere Ubu,
David Axelrod,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
ABBA,
Alison Limerick,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Massinfluence,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ituana,
Thompson Twins,
June of 44,
Sister Nancy,
Albert Ayler,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Blackbyrds,
The Dirtbombs,
EPMD,
the Human League,
CMW,
The Stooges,
UT,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tears for Fears,
Robert Görl,
Jeff Mills,
Black Sheep,
FM Einheit,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Accadde A,
Cybotron,
Supertramp,
The Last Poets,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eurythmics,
The Golliwogs,
Tommy Roe,
Vainqueur,
Bootsy Collins,
Traffic Nightmare,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Blues Magoos,
The Barracudas,
Sonic Youth,
Thee Headcoats,
Ten City,
Ice-T,
The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters.
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.