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 Afghanistan and from Lyon.
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 Jakarta and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Michael McDonald 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
Andrew Hill,
Mary Jane Girls,
Robert Wyatt,
K-Klass,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Seeds,
Tommy Roe,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Young Rascals,
Yusef Lateef,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Second Layer,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Deepchord,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rapeman,
Erykah Badu,
Quadrant,
The Count Five,
Minny Pops,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Searchers,
the Germs,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Boz Scaggs,
Magma,
Jerry's Kids,
The Smiths,
the Bar-Kays,
Con Funk Shun,
Matthew Bourne,
Infiniti,
Minor Threat,
A Certain Ratio,
the Slits,
B.T. Express,
Throbbing Gristle,
Patti Smith,
The Martian,
Jeff Mills,
T. Rex,
MC5,
The Shadows of Knight,
Black Pus,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fugazi,
Todd Rundgren,
The Vogues,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soft Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thompson Twins,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
X-102,
Vladislav Delay,
The Invisible,
The Happenings,
Eric B and Rakim,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.