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 Greece and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Essential Logic to the jazz 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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Pulsallama,
Sun Ra,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Clear Light,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cecil Taylor,
Scientists,
Surgeon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Cowsills,
Jacob Miller,
Cymande,
DJ Sneak,
KRS-One,
Delta 5,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Godley & Creme,
Dorothy Ashby,
Susan Cadogan,
Yellowson,
Lightning Bolt,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marc Almond,
Subhumans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
F. McDonald,
Fela Kuti,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Metal Thangz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Boz Scaggs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Michelle Simonal,
The Sound,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Patti Smith,
48th St. Collective,
Sight & Sound,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Marine Girls,
Terry Callier,
Arthur Verocai,
The Kinks,
Eurythmics,
Ohio Players,
Make Up,
Magazine,
Alton Ellis,
Stereo Dub,
Rosa Yemen,
The Toasters,
Desert Stars,
Television,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DNA,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.