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 Sweden and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Half Japanese to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Marshall Jefferson,
Subhumans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Symarip,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tomorrow,
The Angels of Light,
LL Cool J,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Yusef Lateef,
Donald Byrd,
Blossom Toes,
Neu!,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
X-101,
Soft Cell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lou Reed,
Ludus,
Q and Not U,
In Retrospect,
Idris Muhammad,
Gang Gang Dance,
Excepter,
DNA,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
FM Einheit,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hardrive,
Fat Boys,
Crispy Ambulance,
Patti Smith,
Henry Cow,
Howard Jones,
Lou Christie,
Rapeman,
The Grass Roots,
The Doors,
Deakin,
Youth Brigade,
The Techniques,
Cecil Taylor,
The Standells,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tommy Roe,
Bob Dylan,
Peter and Kerry,
The Move,
Grandmaster Flash,
The American Breed,
Suburban Knight,
Delon & Dalcan,
Max Romeo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cheater Slicks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ponytail,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.