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 Pakistan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Human League to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All The Last Poets tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gang Green,
Delta 5,
Youth Brigade,
Banda Bassotti,
Technova,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Radiohead,
Lower 48,
Tim Buckley,
Liliput,
Piero Umiliani,
Second Layer,
Mantronix,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Gories,
Tommy Roe,
The Techniques,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Michelle Simonal,
Derrick May,
Symarip,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Golliwogs,
Zero Boys,
The Moody Blues,
La Düsseldorf,
Vladislav Delay,
The Electric Prunes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sun Ra,
The Modern Lovers,
Todd Terry,
ABBA,
Ponytail,
Stereo Dub,
U.S. Maple,
T. Rex,
Leonard Cohen,
Scott Walker,
Soul II Soul,
Can,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Blues Magoos,
Yaz,
The Divine Comedy,
Archie Shepp,
Monolake,
Malaria!,
Q and Not U,
Goldenarms,
Severed Heads,
The Names,
Ultravox,
Mr. Review,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Amazonics,
Chris Corsano,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.