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 Albania and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Delon & Dalcan to the dance 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
Young Marble Giants,
Model 500,
The Names,
Nico,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sun Ra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Moss Icon,
Harry Pussy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Minny Pops,
Symarip,
Brothers Johnson,
Adolescents,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lou Reed,
Second Layer,
The Cramps,
Ken Boothe,
Quantec,
The Slits,
Rod Modell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ossler,
Circle Jerks,
Thee Headcoats,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Alphaville,
Deadbeat,
The Young Rascals,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Roxy Music,
Amon Düül,
Rekid,
Yellowson,
Pantytec,
Radio Birdman,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Bananas,
The Durutti Column,
Essential Logic,
Marvin Gaye,
Minnie Riperton,
Albert Ayler,
Con Funk Shun,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Patti Smith,
Public Enemy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rosa Yemen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Association,
AZ,
One Last Wish,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.