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 Botswana and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 clarinet 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Albert Ayler,
Arthur Verocai,
Essential Logic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fear,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultravox,
Dennis Brown,
Davy DMX,
OOIOO,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Slick Rick,
the Association,
The Shadows of Knight,
David McCallum,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
One Last Wish,
Jacques Brel,
The American Breed,
Eli Mardock,
Sound Behaviour,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pole,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fat Boys,
Negative Approach,
Rod Modell,
Hardrive,
Outsiders,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Dave Clark Five,
Skarface,
Silicon Teens,
Andrew Hill,
Sam Rivers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eurythmics,
Public Enemy,
UT,
Big Daddy Kane,
Loose Ends,
E-Dancer,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Procol Harum,
Half Japanese,
Joensuu 1685,
Arab on Radar,
Con Funk Shun,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sällskapet,
MC5,
ABBA,
48th St. Collective,
The Techniques,
Sex Pistols,
Gang Starr,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
Iggy Pop,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.