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 Dominican Republic and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Velvet Underground to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Basic Channel,
Boz Scaggs,
Sarah Menescal,
Morten Harket,
The Techniques,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bill Wells,
Brand Nubian,
Radiohead,
Connie Case,
JFA,
Suburban Knight,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Leaves,
Leonard Cohen,
Saccharine Trust,
New York Dolls,
China Crisis,
Can,
Desert Stars,
Warren Ellis,
Delta 5,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Electric Prunes,
The Doors,
The Red Krayola,
Roger Hodgson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Y Pants,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Byrd,
John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ken Boothe,
Pierre Henry,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sixth Finger,
The Fugs,
Johnny Clarke,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Pretty Things,
Animal Collective,
Lalann,
Bauhaus,
The Fuzztones,
Howard Jones,
David Axelrod,
Rapeman,
Eurythmics,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ituana,
Maleditus Sound,
Silicon Teens,
Electric Prunes,
Scrapy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.