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 Uruguay and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Chrome to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stockholm Monsters 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Talk Talk,
Black Moon,
Joyce Sims,
EPMD,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mantronix,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Avey Tare,
Grauzone,
Slave,
The Count Five,
Aural Exciters,
Gong,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mark Hollis,
Al Stewart,
Camouflage,
Kurtis Blow,
Godley & Creme,
F. McDonald,
Michelle Simonal,
Average White Band,
MC5,
Idris Muhammad,
Pierre Henry,
Arab on Radar,
Danielle Patucci,
The Misunderstood,
The Black Dice,
Barclay James Harvest,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Excepter,
Index,
Goldenarms,
Unrelated Segments,
Alison Limerick,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wolf Eyes,
Scratch Acid,
Minutemen,
The Monks,
Moby Grape,
Clear Light,
Patti Smith,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Technova,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Radiohead,
Piero Umiliani,
Essential Logic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Shoche,
Bush Tetras,
Blake Baxter,
The Velvet Underground,
B.T. Express,
The Blues Magoos,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.