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 Indonesia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 snare 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the grime 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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
Mad Mike,
Pantytec,
Joy Division,
Accadde A,
The Doors,
Oneida,
The Techniques,
Wire,
New Order,
Mark Hollis,
T.S.O.L.,
Surgeon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Flamin' Groovies,
Peter & Gordon,
Toni Rubio,
Charles Mingus,
MDC,
The Dirtbombs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
LL Cool J,
The Offenders,
Hot Snakes,
U.S. Maple,
The Fuzztones,
The American Breed,
Davy DMX,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pet Shop Boys,
The J.B.'s,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Duran Duran,
The Blues Magoos,
Pere Ubu,
Nation of Ulysses,
Unrelated Segments,
Basic Channel,
Maleditus Sound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Juan Atkins,
Jeff Lynne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Raincoats,
X-102,
The Real Kids,
Shoche,
Silicon Teens,
Bluetip,
Crooked Eye,
Jesper Dahlback,
Alton Ellis,
Deakin,
Todd Rundgren,
Severed Heads,
Unwound,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.