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 Australia and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe 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 Moby Grape to the rap 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Soul II Soul,
Bobby Sherman,
Maurizio,
the Swans,
Judy Mowatt,
Royal Trux,
Sixth Finger,
The Misunderstood,
Barrington Levy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Names,
Lindisfarne,
Rosa Yemen,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Albert Ayler,
David McCallum,
The Trojans,
Scrapy,
Man Parrish,
The Slits,
The Red Krayola,
Joensuu 1685,
Alison Limerick,
Agitation Free,
Black Bananas,
Roy Ayers,
Das Ding,
Gang Green,
Grandmaster Flash,
Michelle Simonal,
Sound Behaviour,
Aloha Tigers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Pretty Things,
Deadbeat,
Marvin Gaye,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Metal Thangz,
David Bowie,
Alice Coltrane,
Swans,
Sister Nancy,
Joey Negro,
Crime,
The Real Kids,
Khruangbin,
Derrick May,
Jacob Miller,
Scott Walker,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Sonics,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gang of Four,
One Last Wish,
Stereo Dub,
Severed Heads,
This Heat,
Jerry's Kids,
Wings,
The Sound,
The Motions,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.