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 St Lucia and from Madrid.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe 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 Rosa Yemen to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
John Holt,
Pussy Galore,
T. Rex,
Jawbox,
Hashim,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cameo,
Isaac Hayes,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amon Düül,
One Last Wish,
Public Enemy,
the Normal,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
ABC,
Mars,
Circle Jerks,
Grauzone,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Sound,
Mad Mike,
Flipper,
Mary Jane Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
Severed Heads,
Warren Ellis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tom Boy,
Goldenarms,
The Cowsills,
F. McDonald,
Country Teasers,
Ultra Naté,
Unwound,
Jeff Lynne,
The Durutti Column,
The Gladiators,
Matthew Halsall,
The Barracudas,
Niagra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Offenders,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rotary Connection,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Real Kids,
Ice-T,
B.T. Express,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Avey Tare,
Minor Threat,
Suburban Knight,
Funkadelic,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joe Smooth,
Sam Rivers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.