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 Venezuela and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Lou Reed 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 Judy Mowatt to the electroclash 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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agent Orange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Move,
Nas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joe Smooth,
The Walker Brothers,
UT,
Pulsallama,
The Gladiators,
Funky Four + One,
Sight & Sound,
Patti Smith,
X-102,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fear,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Associates,
Joey Negro,
Crash Course in Science,
Whodini,
Boz Scaggs,
Nico,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
June Days,
Desert Stars,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Human League,
Nick Fraelich,
The Tremeloes,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed,
Chris Corsano,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
10cc,
Main Source,
Jacob Miller,
Fluxion,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dorothy Ashby,
Amon Düül II,
Mo-Dettes,
The Gap Band,
Zapp,
The Residents,
Ralphi Rosario,
Little Man,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Velvet Underground,
Symarip,
Fela Kuti,
Alison Limerick,
Ornette Coleman,
Minutemen,
The Zeros,
Q65,
Eric Copeland,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.