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 Mexico and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bob Dylan to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Wasted Youth,
Theoretical Girls,
The Smiths,
Rosa Yemen,
The Tremeloes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Audionom,
Nik Kershaw,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Oneida,
Urselle,
The Move,
Carl Craig,
Yellowson,
The Saints,
Underground Resistance,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gories,
New Age Steppers,
AZ,
Kerri Chandler,
Shuggie Otis,
Toni Rubio,
Glenn Branca,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Surgeon,
Cluster,
The Black Dice,
The Associates,
Mantronix,
Anthony Braxton,
DJ Style,
Traffic Nightmare,
Newcleus,
Japan,
Spoonie Gee,
Eric Copeland,
Clear Light,
The Wake,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soul Sonic Force,
Youth Brigade,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fluxion,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Q65,
Arthur Verocai,
Neil Young,
D'Angelo,
Laurel Aitken,
Davy DMX,
Judy Mowatt,
The Cure,
Arab on Radar,
The Blackbyrds,
ABC,
Lee Hazlewood,
Deepchord,
Joyce Sims,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.