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 Equatorial Guinea and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Dorothy Ashby to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crooked Eye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
K-Klass,
The Mojo Men,
Tom Boy,
Talk Talk,
Motorama,
The Vogues,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Anakelly,
Absolute Body Control,
Gerry Rafferty,
Peter & Gordon,
Joensuu 1685,
Sound Behaviour,
Pagans,
The Blackbyrds,
Basic Channel,
Bush Tetras,
Grandmaster Flash,
Cameo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ituana,
Sexual Harrassment,
CMW,
Loose Ends,
Television Personalities,
Colin Newman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Alphaville,
Das Ding,
Cluster,
Carl Craig,
Unwound,
Derrick May,
Electric Prunes,
Ludus,
Groovy Waters,
Robert Hood,
Lindisfarne,
The Standells,
Nas,
Scrapy,
Harmonia,
Patti Smith,
Pere Ubu,
The Music Machine,
Gang Gang Dance,
Shoche,
The Evens,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yusef Lateef,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Soul II Soul,
Eric Dolphy,
Surgeon,
Average White Band,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Terry Callier,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.