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 Oman and from New York.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Terrestrial Tones to the jazz 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Eddi Front,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Vogues,
The Slackers,
Hashim,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
X-101,
Circle Jerks,
The Dead C,
Harmonia,
Bauhaus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shoche,
the Swans,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pole,
Gang Green,
Moebius,
The Seeds,
Sällskapet,
Scott Walker,
The Fortunes,
Quadrant,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
kango's stein massive,
The Buckinghams,
Masters at Work,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Hasil Adkins,
Nick Fraelich,
China Crisis,
The Count Five,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dual Sessions,
Connie Case,
E-Dancer,
Lou Reed,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Sonics,
the Germs,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pagans,
The Slits,
Kurtis Blow,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
OOIOO,
Drexciya,
Erykah Badu,
The Index,
The Wake,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kayak,
Harry Pussy,
The Skatalites,
Glambeats Corp.,
Hot Snakes,
Yellowson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.