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 Samoa and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 Woodstock and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Audionom to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Glenn Branca,
kango's stein massive,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bobby Womack,
Eden Ahbez,
Mandrill,
Rakim,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Standells,
LL Cool J,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Derrick May,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scratch Acid,
Fatback Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terrestrial Tones,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kayak,
Livin' Joy,
Urselle,
D'Angelo,
Morten Harket,
The Monks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nirvana,
Danielle Patucci,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Real Kids,
Ludus,
Bizarre Inc.,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Alarm Clocks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agitation Free,
The Moody Blues,
the Association,
Excepter,
Avey Tare,
The Knickerbockers,
Jeff Lynne,
The Invisible,
ABC,
The Martian,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Vladislav Delay,
New York Dolls,
The Sound,
ABBA,
The Wake,
Yusef Lateef,
Mo-Dettes,
Deepchord,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.