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 Thailand and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe 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 the Slits 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Slick Rick,
Leonard Cohen,
Bush Tetras,
the Germs,
Theoretical Girls,
Roxy Music,
Lucky Dragons,
Robert Wyatt,
Ronan,
10cc,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Man Parrish,
The Remains,
Idris Muhammad,
Stockholm Monsters,
Minor Threat,
Fela Kuti,
Easy Going,
CMW,
Duran Duran,
The Index,
Soft Cell,
Charles Mingus,
Isaac Hayes,
The American Breed,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Panda Bear,
Young Marble Giants,
The Gun Club,
The United States of America,
Glambeats Corp.,
Avey Tare,
Royal Trux,
Tubeway Army,
Bronski Beat,
DNA,
Black Bananas,
Das Ding,
Minnie Riperton,
Dawn Penn,
Surgeon,
Cluster,
Flash Fearless,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Real Kids,
Rakim,
Fat Boys,
Sixth Finger,
Pet Shop Boys,
Laurel Aitken,
Blake Baxter,
Donny Hathaway,
The Fuzztones,
Jeff Mills,
Ultra Naté,
Soulsonic Force,
Bobby Byrd,
The Slits,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Deepchord,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.