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 Georgia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 the Fania All-Stars to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kings Of Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Human League,
The Red Krayola,
The Motions,
Minnie Riperton,
Dennis Brown,
Accadde A,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nick Fraelich,
The New Christs,
Lou Christie,
Saccharine Trust,
Shuggie Otis,
Suicide,
Subhumans,
Man Parrish,
David McCallum,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Leonard Cohen,
Index,
Skarface,
Nik Kershaw,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Gories,
Make Up,
Scratch Acid,
Bang On A Can,
The Doors,
Gang Starr,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Underground Resistance,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eden Ahbez,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Seeds,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Victims,
Lakeside,
Marshall Jefferson,
Circle Jerks,
Isaac Hayes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bush Tetras,
Aloha Tigers,
Bobby Sherman,
The Cure,
MC5,
Parry Music,
Television Personalities,
Slick Rick,
Don Cherry,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
David Axelrod,
Radiohead,
Pylon,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang Green,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.