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 Iraq and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses to the crunk 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
The Offenders,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pantytec,
Darondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Peter & Gordon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Goldenarms,
Tropical Tobacco,
Arab on Radar,
The Move,
Erykah Badu,
Hardrive,
The Music Machine,
Massinfluence,
The American Breed,
Theoretical Girls,
Gabor Szabo,
The Blackbyrds,
Crime,
Donald Byrd,
Glenn Branca,
Bush Tetras,
Traffic Nightmare,
Soft Machine,
The Slackers,
Rapeman,
Oblivians,
The Vogues,
A Certain Ratio,
Amon Düül II,
Eric Copeland,
Janne Schatter,
Unrelated Segments,
Blossom Toes,
Con Funk Shun,
Vladislav Delay,
Gong,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sarah Menescal,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sun Ra,
Interpol,
The Dead C,
The Shadows of Knight,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Electric Prunes,
The Stooges,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Brick,
Kayak,
Leonard Cohen,
Arcadia,
The Raincoats,
Simply Red,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Aural Exciters,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.