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 Jordan and from Stockholm.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 X-102 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Model 500,
The Searchers,
The Residents,
Ossler,
Heaven 17,
Pagans,
B.T. Express,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Flash Fearless,
Quadrant,
Cheater Slicks,
PIL,
Rosa Yemen,
Flipper,
The Fortunes,
Adolescents,
The Cure,
The Real Kids,
Andrew Hill,
Fatback Band,
Visage,
Lee Hazlewood,
David Axelrod,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Funky Four + One,
The Monks,
Roxette,
Parry Music,
Mission of Burma,
Dead Boys,
Animal Collective,
Yusef Lateef,
Susan Cadogan,
The Gap Band,
Echospace,
The American Breed,
Boogie Down Productions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Tubeway Army,
The Monochrome Set,
Stockholm Monsters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Josef K,
Bobby Womack,
Minor Threat,
Altered Images,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Patti Smith,
Lightning Bolt,
Boz Scaggs,
Sarah Menescal,
Guru Guru,
Scott Walker,
The Selecter,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Aloha Tigers,
DJ Style,
Prince Buster,
Althea and Donna,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.