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 Bolivia and from Seoul.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 organ 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 T.S.O.L. to the funk 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
China Crisis,
the Human League,
Pole,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jawbox,
Grauzone,
Tubeway Army,
The Moleskins,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Donald Byrd,
The Velvet Underground,
Sister Nancy,
The Names,
ABBA,
John Foxx,
The Standells,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
One Last Wish,
The Electric Prunes,
Lindisfarne,
Hardrive,
Soul II Soul,
Cecil Taylor,
Severed Heads,
Ornette Coleman,
Echospace,
Laurel Aitken,
Bush Tetras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Vladislav Delay,
The Doobie Brothers,
Yusef Lateef,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Anthony Braxton,
Dead Boys,
Jacob Miller,
Eric Dolphy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Television Personalities,
Black Moon,
Amon Düül II,
The Index,
Bluetip,
Cameo,
Todd Rundgren,
Massinfluence,
The Pretty Things,
Cluster,
Brothers Johnson,
Black Flag,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Chris & Cosey,
Mary Jane Girls,
Von Mondo,
Drexciya,
The Beau Brummels,
Moebius,
Scott Walker,
Camouflage,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.