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 Denmark and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 KRS-One to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dawn Penn,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kaleidoscope,
Barbara Tucker,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nas,
The Neon Judgement,
The Misunderstood,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soulsonic Force,
Peter and Kerry,
Von Mondo,
Ultra Naté,
Marvin Gaye,
Agitation Free,
Saccharine Trust,
Cecil Taylor,
Bobby Womack,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Seeds,
Thee Headcoats,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Godley & Creme,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Infiniti,
Supertramp,
Lightning Bolt,
Moss Icon,
This Heat,
Peter & Gordon,
Tres Demented,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minnie Riperton,
Jandek,
Bobby Sherman,
Trumans Water,
Roxy Music,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Knickerbockers,
Quadrant,
Model 500,
Fluxion,
Skarface,
Charles Mingus,
Curtis Mayfield,
Make Up,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Leonard Cohen,
The Raincoats,
Tropical Tobacco,
In Retrospect,
48th St. Collective,
Stetsasonic,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.