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 Paraguay and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 8 Eyed Spy to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Derrick May,
Mo-Dettes,
The Residents,
The Names,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Absolute Body Control,
Skarface,
T.S.O.L.,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jawbox,
Pole,
The Gories,
Fad Gadget,
10cc,
Guru Guru,
The Martian,
World's Most,
Sun Ra,
Ultravox,
Warren Ellis,
Stockholm Monsters,
LL Cool J,
the Slits,
Half Japanese,
The Standells,
Massinfluence,
Warsaw,
Maurizio,
Swans,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Blues Magoos,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Gang Gang Dance,
UT,
Public Enemy,
Darondo,
Reagan Youth,
Maleditus Sound,
Yellowson,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Derrick Morgan,
Scrapy,
48th St. Collective,
Fugazi,
The Birthday Party,
Anthony Braxton,
The Durutti Column,
Quadrant,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dawn Penn,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Procol Harum,
Thee Headcoats,
Second Layer,
Eric Copeland,
Pylon,
E-Dancer,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.