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 Iceland and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 808 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 Bobby Sherman to the jazz 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lee Hazlewood,
Neu!,
Unwound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arcadia,
John Coltrane,
MDC,
Gabor Szabo,
48th St. Collective,
Flipper,
Nick Fraelich,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sun Ra,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ralphi Rosario,
Dennis Brown,
Masters at Work,
The Golliwogs,
Average White Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Litter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Smog,
The Blackbyrds,
Terry Callier,
Boredoms,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Knickerbockers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kurtis Blow,
OOIOO,
Eli Mardock,
AZ,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Porter Ricks,
Parry Music,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Supertramp,
Basic Channel,
Alton Ellis,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fatback Band,
kango's stein massive,
Spoonie Gee,
The Blues Magoos,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
X-102,
Man Parrish,
LL Cool J,
Joey Negro,
Mark Hollis,
Ronan,
Radiohead,
Lyres,
Amon Düül II,
Japan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.