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 Thailand and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro 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 The Golliwogs to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Newcleus,
Zapp,
Peter & Gordon,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
OOIOO,
Moss Icon,
Public Image Ltd.,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The J.B.'s,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Leonard Cohen,
Barry Ungar,
Michelle Simonal,
Jawbox,
Rakim,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Howard Jones,
Slave,
Country Teasers,
DJ Style,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Junior Murvin,
Gabor Szabo,
Swans,
Minnie Riperton,
The Slits,
The Fall,
Avey Tare,
Bootsy Collins,
the Human League,
K-Klass,
Skarface,
The Martian,
Laurel Aitken,
David Bowie,
Fluxion,
Brothers Johnson,
Thompson Twins,
Vladislav Delay,
The Happenings,
The Smoke,
Little Man,
China Crisis,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Hot Snakes,
Masters at Work,
Japan,
The Associates,
Chris & Cosey,
The United States of America,
Alice Coltrane,
The Black Dice,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joe Finger,
FM Einheit,
The Techniques,
Pylon,
June Days,
Bill Near,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.