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 Israel and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 New York Dolls to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Brass Construction,
Mantronix,
Minor Threat,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Sonics,
JFA,
Lyres,
Dennis Brown,
Bang On A Can,
Altered Images,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Peter & Gordon,
Neu!,
Dual Sessions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Deepchord,
10cc,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
David McCallum,
The Skatalites,
The Beau Brummels,
Blossom Toes,
Sixth Finger,
Eve St. Jones,
Nico,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sister Nancy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scratch Acid,
Supertramp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-101,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sexual Harrassment,
Crime,
Kurtis Blow,
Flash Fearless,
Guru Guru,
The Human League,
UT,
Negative Approach,
Model 500,
Scan 7,
Rufus Thomas,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tomorrow,
Lou Reed,
Nick Fraelich,
Hashim,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rekid,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Quantec,
Whodini,
Fatback Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.