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 Nepal and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 harpsichord 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 The New Christs to the crunk 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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
The Vogues,
Faraquet,
Crooked Eye,
The Misunderstood,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dawn Penn,
Swell Maps,
Mr. Review,
Mars,
The Gap Band,
Graham Central Station,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Brick,
Bizarre Inc.,
Infiniti,
The Human League,
Eden Ahbez,
Funkadelic,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Techniques,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Zeros,
Black Flag,
Warsaw,
Toni Rubio,
Joe Finger,
Alphaville,
Nas,
Index,
OOIOO,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Half Japanese,
Joe Smooth,
Johnny Clarke,
David McCallum,
H. Thieme,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
cv313,
L. Decosne,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lee Hazlewood,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barrington Levy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Patti Smith,
Royal Trux,
Vainqueur,
Outsiders,
Mo-Dettes,
Althea and Donna,
Todd Terry,
Scan 7,
the Normal,
Au Pairs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Carl Craig,
Pylon, Pylon, Pylon, Pylon.
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.