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 Luxembourg and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joe Finger to the crunk 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Blossom Toes,
Bobby Sherman,
Babytalk,
Ornette Coleman,
Essential Logic,
Desert Stars,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Womack,
48th St. Collective,
Eden Ahbez,
The Standells,
Monolake,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chris & Cosey,
Gastr Del Sol,
Visage,
D'Angelo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Dawn Penn,
Sällskapet,
Ossler,
Pylon,
MC5,
Quando Quango,
Jandek,
The Doors,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Avey Tare,
Suburban Knight,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bauhaus,
The Pop Group,
Bush Tetras,
KRS-One,
Eric Copeland,
Gil Scott Heron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Gories,
The Dirtbombs,
Von Mondo,
John Holt,
Cymande,
CMW,
Franke,
The Smiths,
Marine Girls,
Cecil Taylor,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Fraelich,
Lalo Schifrin,
Unwound,
OOIOO,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joey Negro,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Arcadia,
The American Breed,
Pierre Henry,
Sonic Youth,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.