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 Romania and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Anakelly to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 James White and The Blacks. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Soul II Soul,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Wire,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kerri Chandler,
Index,
Skarface,
The Star Department,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Swell Maps,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Doors,
Terry Callier,
Judy Mowatt,
The Monochrome Set,
Arab on Radar,
The Raincoats,
Swans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Doobie Brothers,
Livin' Joy,
Au Pairs,
Cheater Slicks,
Quadrant,
The Blues Magoos,
The Techniques,
Niagra,
OOIOO,
Mo-Dettes,
Andrew Hill,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Motorama,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare,
Tommy Roe,
Aloha Tigers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Young Rascals,
Delon & Dalcan,
Amon Düül,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Severed Heads,
Aswad,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nas,
Cecil Taylor,
Grauzone,
Minor Threat,
Ponytail,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Move,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eli Mardock,
Buzzcocks,
Sandy B,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Mandrill,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.