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 Chile and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 cv313 to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
Quantec,
Skarface,
Mr. Review,
Man Eating Sloth,
Audionom,
Josef K,
The Cowsills,
The Tremeloes,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Golliwogs,
Sun City Girls,
Bobby Sherman,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Alison Limerick,
Ronan,
Andrew Hill,
Buzzcocks,
Agent Orange,
Vladislav Delay,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lucky Dragons,
Suicide,
Dark Day,
Sixth Finger,
Curtis Mayfield,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pantaleimon,
the Soft Cell,
Anthony Braxton,
Michelle Simonal,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gabor Szabo,
Derrick May,
the Normal,
Anakelly,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Deadbeat,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Pop Group,
Porter Ricks,
DJ Sneak,
Ice-T,
Y Pants,
The Grass Roots,
Pere Ubu,
Popol Vuh,
Tom Boy,
Ken Boothe,
Rites of Spring,
Mission of Burma,
Deepchord,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Invisible,
Peter and Kerry,
The Buckinghams,
Glambeats Corp.,
Blake Baxter,
Magma,
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.