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 Solomon Islands and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scion to the techno 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Mr. Review tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a OOIOO record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Oblivians,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Silicon Teens,
Drexciya,
Second Layer,
Dual Sessions,
Animal Collective,
Black Flag,
Warren Ellis,
Rites of Spring,
The Gun Club,
Whodini,
Althea and Donna,
ABC,
The Move,
Franke,
Arab on Radar,
The Cramps,
Cluster,
Rekid,
Slick Rick,
Swell Maps,
Faust,
Ten City,
Sandy B,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fire Engines,
E-Dancer,
Gabor Szabo,
The Mummies,
Heaven 17,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Neu!,
Au Pairs,
The Names,
Sun Ra,
The Birthday Party,
Scientists,
Metal Thangz,
June Days,
Icehouse,
Barrington Levy,
Desert Stars,
The Invisible,
Alton Ellis,
Joyce Sims,
Bluetip,
Faraquet,
Stereo Dub,
Siglo XX,
Rod Modell,
Harmonia,
Cameo,
Flash Fearless,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Banda Bassotti,
Boz Scaggs,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.