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 Morocco and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Monks to the rap 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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Eric Dolphy,
Supertramp,
Joyce Sims,
The Invisible,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Hot Snakes,
Michelle Simonal,
Bush Tetras,
Joy Division,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aswad,
Stereo Dub,
Average White Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Ken Boothe,
Crash Course in Science,
Roxy Music,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sandy B,
Sex Pistols,
The Birthday Party,
The Misunderstood,
LL Cool J,
Delta 5,
Smog,
Boredoms,
Heaven 17,
Accadde A,
DNA,
Negative Approach,
Tim Buckley,
Wolf Eyes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Slave,
10cc,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pantaleimon,
Porter Ricks,
Marmalade,
China Crisis,
Essential Logic,
Jawbox,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eurythmics,
Nas,
Yusef Lateef,
Wire,
Rosa Yemen,
The Music Machine,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
U.S. Maple,
Altered Images,
Second Layer,
Schoolly D,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nirvana,
Robert Görl,
Soul Sonic Force,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.