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 Kiribati and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes 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 X-102 to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
EPMD,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Erykah Badu,
The Searchers,
a-ha,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Skatalites,
The Smoke,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jerry's Kids,
Drive Like Jehu,
CMW,
Man Parrish,
Dark Day,
Adolescents,
The New Christs,
Rhythm & Sound,
Blake Baxter,
Alton Ellis,
Dawn Penn,
The Electric Prunes,
Brothers Johnson,
Andrew Hill,
The Neon Judgement,
Clear Light,
Delta 5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gong,
Ice-T,
Symarip,
Groovy Waters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pylon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moebius,
Talk Talk,
DJ Style,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pierre Henry,
Skriet,
Lungfish,
Flipper,
Yusef Lateef,
Boredoms,
Pulsallama,
Unwound,
Nas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Girls At Our Best!,
Intrusion,
Depeche Mode,
Skarface,
Desert Stars,
The Gories,
Porter Ricks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Echospace,
Johnny Clarke,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.