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 Guyana and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Prince Buster to the rock 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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
X-102,
Deepchord,
Yellowson,
The Busters,
Symarip,
Bob Dylan,
Agent Orange,
The Five Americans,
The Beau Brummels,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gang of Four,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Japan,
Grandmaster Flash,
Urselle,
Crooked Eye,
Groovy Waters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Stereo Dub,
Lou Christie,
F. McDonald,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Donald Byrd,
Hasil Adkins,
The J.B.'s,
Eli Mardock,
Deadbeat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Panda Bear,
The Cramps,
The Angels of Light,
Radio Birdman,
The Grass Roots,
Ossler,
Desert Stars,
Moss Icon,
Ronnie Foster,
Unwound,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Tubeway Army,
Kurtis Blow,
La Düsseldorf,
Anthony Braxton,
The Golliwogs,
The Evens,
Alice Coltrane,
Sun City Girls,
Motorama,
Donny Hathaway,
DJ Style,
Rosa Yemen,
Shuggie Otis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rapeman,
Harmonia,
Kerrie Biddell,
Wings,
K-Klass,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Pop Group,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.