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 Panama and from London.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Delhi.
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 spring reverb 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 Agitation Free to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Star Department,
Lightning Bolt,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
X-102,
David McCallum,
Alton Ellis,
Terrestrial Tones,
Massinfluence,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tres Demented,
Minnie Riperton,
Saccharine Trust,
DNA,
Quando Quango,
Wire,
Erasure,
Cluster,
Mr. Review,
Index,
Kool Moe Dee,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lucky Dragons,
Deakin,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Black Dice,
Scientists,
The Techniques,
Derrick Morgan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pylon,
The Sonics,
the Slits,
Kas Product,
Parry Music,
Second Layer,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Soft Cell,
Stiv Bators,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Colin Newman,
Flash Fearless,
Qualms,
Sam Rivers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sällskapet,
The Doors,
kango's stein massive,
the Sonics,
The Busters,
Harpers Bizarre,
Popol Vuh,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eden Ahbez,
June of 44,
JFA,
cv313,
Nas,
Magma,
Nirvana,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.