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 Russia and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Agitation Free to the jazz 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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Circle Jerks,
Matthew Halsall,
Toni Rubio,
The Offenders,
Davy DMX,
Barry Ungar,
The J.B.'s,
La Düsseldorf,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Danielle Patucci,
Audionom,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Big Daddy Kane,
F. McDonald,
Intrusion,
Khruangbin,
Thee Headcoats,
The Martian,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kerri Chandler,
Black Flag,
Rosa Yemen,
Nas,
The Dead C,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Barclay James Harvest,
Magazine,
Johnny Osbourne,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Skarface,
Motorama,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Index,
Zapp,
Country Teasers,
The Gories,
Isaac Hayes,
Vainqueur,
Half Japanese,
Surgeon,
Harmonia,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Doors,
Masters at Work,
Accadde A,
The Moleskins,
One Last Wish,
Whodini,
Saccharine Trust,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bill Near,
The Young Rascals,
The Black Dice,
Chris & Cosey,
Joey Negro,
Minor Threat,
John Foxx,
Bad Manners,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lightning Bolt,
Crash Course in Science,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.