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 Burundi and from London.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Human League to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tim Buckley record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Parry Music,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lightning Bolt,
Jerry's Kids,
Maurizio,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
D'Angelo,
Von Mondo,
Adolescents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erykah Badu,
The Vogues,
Aswad,
Ohio Players,
Sound Behaviour,
Desert Stars,
Slave,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Joey Negro,
Mission of Burma,
Nick Fraelich,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Invisible,
Harry Pussy,
Nico,
Average White Band,
Archie Shepp,
Pagans,
The Selecter,
Skarface,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Visage,
Masters at Work,
Goldenarms,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Five Americans,
Liliput,
Main Source,
Barclay James Harvest,
Icehouse,
Siglo XX,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Sound,
Sällskapet,
Dead Boys,
OOIOO,
Crispian St. Peters,
F. McDonald,
Wings,
Schoolly D,
Los Fastidios,
Lungfish,
UT,
The Monochrome Set,
X-101,
Mandrill,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bauhaus,
The Young Rascals,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.