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 Barbados and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes 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 Whodini 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gong,
X-101,
Gang of Four,
The Fugs,
Connie Case,
Shoche,
PIL,
Au Pairs,
Lindisfarne,
The Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
Japan,
Joensuu 1685,
Urselle,
48th St. Collective,
Public Image Ltd.,
Boogie Down Productions,
Anakelly,
Robert Hood,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Wings,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scott Walker,
the Soft Cell,
Ossler,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Vainqueur,
Schoolly D,
Symarip,
The New Christs,
Boredoms,
The Barracudas,
Jimmy McGriff,
The J.B.'s,
China Crisis,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Agent Orange,
Minny Pops,
Camberwell Now,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Young Rascals,
B.T. Express,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Easy Going,
The Standells,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Loose Ends,
The Last Poets,
Hot Snakes,
CMW,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Albert Ayler,
The Moody Blues,
Tomorrow,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Blues Magoos,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.