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 Chile and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Toni Rubio to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marmalade,
Ornette Coleman,
The Gories,
Lalo Schifrin,
Severed Heads,
Black Flag,
Joe Finger,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Raincoats,
Arthur Verocai,
Jeff Mills,
Depeche Mode,
Alice Coltrane,
Fluxion,
The Divine Comedy,
The Moody Blues,
The Happenings,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Electric Light Orchestra,
A Flock of Seagulls,
ABBA,
Altered Images,
Camberwell Now,
John Lydon,
Moebius,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Slits,
Piero Umiliani,
T. Rex,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Pretty Things,
Crash Course in Science,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Urselle,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Doors,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cecil Taylor,
The Blues Magoos,
Steve Hackett,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joensuu 1685,
Fatback Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Toasters,
Theoretical Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pulsallama,
Fear,
New Order,
Rekid,
Anthony Braxton,
Thompson Twins,
Mars,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
H. Thieme,
FM Einheit,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.