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 Ecuador and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lalann to the grime 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 Litter. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
Soul II Soul,
Fatback Band,
OOIOO,
LL Cool J,
Alice Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hasil Adkins,
Patti Smith,
EPMD,
Aloha Tigers,
Scientists,
Adolescents,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sugar Minott,
Newcleus,
The Real Kids,
Mr. Review,
Warren Ellis,
The United States of America,
Moebius,
The Leaves,
Cybotron,
Wolf Eyes,
The Mummies,
Suicide,
The Slits,
Minny Pops,
Kurtis Blow,
Rites of Spring,
Gang of Four,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
kango's stein massive,
Parry Music,
Crooked Eye,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Piero Umiliani,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jawbox,
The Smiths,
Danielle Patucci,
Kas Product,
Liliput,
Deakin,
The Residents,
Brothers Johnson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Excepter,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lou Christie,
Glambeats Corp.,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lower 48,
Heaven 17,
E-Dancer,
Quando Quango,
The Cramps,
Joe Finger,
Anthony Braxton,
One Last Wish,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.