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 Pakistan and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Massinfluence to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Roger Hodgson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Raincoats,
The Fortunes,
Mission of Burma,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Second Layer,
Moebius,
Avey Tare,
Pharoah Sanders,
Marcia Griffiths,
Circle Jerks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Moleskins,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marvin Gaye,
The Move,
The Associates,
The Barracudas,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mo-Dettes,
The Techniques,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Grey Daturas,
June Days,
Throbbing Gristle,
Archie Shepp,
X-101,
Prince Buster,
The Buckinghams,
Rufus Thomas,
Spoonie Gee,
The Zeros,
Unwound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Stetsasonic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bill Near,
Masters at Work,
Barbara Tucker,
Black Sheep,
Dual Sessions,
Warsaw,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kerri Chandler,
Lalann,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Agitation Free,
Marmalade,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Quantec,
Swell Maps,
Ludus,
Dave Gahan,
Bobby Byrd,
Radiohead,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Harry Pussy,
David Axelrod,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.