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 Chad and from Houston.
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 Milan and Lille.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the rock 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 the Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Jeff Lynne,
The Trojans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Motions,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Godley & Creme,
Chris Corsano,
Underground Resistance,
Nation of Ulysses,
Slick Rick,
Grauzone,
Depeche Mode,
Derrick May,
David Bowie,
Cluster,
Section 25,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pagans,
Whodini,
The American Breed,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Letta Mbulu,
These Immortal Souls,
China Crisis,
Smog,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Martian,
The Moleskins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
X-Ray Spex,
Das Ding,
Khruangbin,
The New Christs,
48th St. Collective,
Livin' Joy,
La Düsseldorf,
Hardrive,
Peter & Gordon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Funkadelic,
Television,
Danielle Patucci,
Saccharine Trust,
Interpol,
Todd Rundgren,
Marvin Gaye,
Los Fastidios,
Junior Murvin,
The Index,
Index,
The Seeds,
Alice Coltrane,
Joe Finger,
Dennis Brown,
Fad Gadget,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barbara Tucker,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.