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 Lithuania and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar 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 Lucky Dragons to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Doors,
Lalann,
Magma,
Talk Talk,
The Standells,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scan 7,
Electric Prunes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Aural Exciters,
Rotary Connection,
Eric Dolphy,
The Zeros,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nik Kershaw,
Siglo XX,
Mad Mike,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Harmonia,
Toni Rubio,
The Victims,
Robert Hood,
Nick Fraelich,
Wally Richardson,
Donny Hathaway,
Second Layer,
the Slits,
CMW,
The Motions,
The Five Americans,
Scion,
Soulsonic Force,
Fugazi,
Delta 5,
Deakin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Swell Maps,
The Tremeloes,
Model 500,
Underground Resistance,
Nas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Spandau Ballet,
Jacob Miller,
The Wake,
The Moleskins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Divine Comedy,
Shoche,
Quando Quango,
Flamin' Groovies,
Josef K,
The Neon Judgement,
Animal Collective,
Bang On A Can,
Arab on Radar,
Absolute Body Control,
The United States of America,
Au Pairs,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.