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 Greece and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 mellotron 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 Todd Terry to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Popol Vuh. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Eddi Front,
Kas Product,
The Electric Prunes,
Fatback Band,
Marvin Gaye,
Barrington Levy,
Derrick May,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lalo Schifrin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Brass Construction,
The Residents,
Crime,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tom Boy,
John Foxx,
The Gap Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Hashim,
Sun Ra,
Zapp,
Pulsallama,
Colin Newman,
The Gun Club,
Barbara Tucker,
Blossom Toes,
Davy DMX,
Stiv Bators,
Agitation Free,
New Age Steppers,
One Last Wish,
Roxette,
L. Decosne,
Peter & Gordon,
Man Parrish,
Little Man,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Dave Clark Five,
Godley & Creme,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Toni Rubio,
These Immortal Souls,
Make Up,
Magma,
Donny Hathaway,
Simply Red,
48th St. Collective,
Qualms,
Scrapy,
Essential Logic,
Marmalade,
Television,
Sarah Menescal,
Reagan Youth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Animal Collective,
Negative Approach,
Aloha Tigers,
June of 44,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.