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 Monaco and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 Letta Mbulu to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Porter Ricks. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Sun City Girls,
Robert Hood,
Albert Ayler,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang of Four,
Joe Smooth,
the Germs,
UT,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agent Orange,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ice-T,
Terrestrial Tones,
Camouflage,
Spandau Ballet,
Ultravox,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lebanon Hanover,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Derrick May,
Organ,
LL Cool J,
Alphaville,
Crash Course in Science,
The Standells,
Radiohead,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bluetip,
Unrelated Segments,
Scrapy,
The Velvet Underground,
Harpers Bizarre,
Susan Cadogan,
Can,
Black Moon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Chris Corsano,
Amon Düül II,
The Motions,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Skarface,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Seeds,
Iggy Pop,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bad Manners,
Lungfish,
Swell Maps,
Wire,
Erykah Badu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bill Near,
Piero Umiliani,
Lakeside,
Slave,
Skriet,
The Blackbyrds,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.