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 Jordan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Accadde A to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Steve Hackett record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
This Heat,
Rufus Thomas,
Barbara Tucker,
Eurythmics,
Shoche,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Monochrome Set,
Reagan Youth,
Sarah Menescal,
Bronski Beat,
Todd Rundgren,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jimmy McGriff,
La Düsseldorf,
Section 25,
Mandrill,
Darondo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Soft Cell,
Zero Boys,
The Fuzztones,
New Age Steppers,
Eric B and Rakim,
June of 44,
Glenn Branca,
Josef K,
Bauhaus,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sugar Minott,
X-Ray Spex,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Simply Red,
Fela Kuti,
The Stooges,
Duran Duran,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Agitation Free,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Howard Jones,
The Motions,
Stockholm Monsters,
Intrusion,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Todd Terry,
Mantronix,
Dawn Penn,
Peter and Kerry,
Sonic Youth,
Lalann,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lakeside,
The Busters,
Maurizio,
Fear,
Lightning Bolt,
The United States of America,
Brand Nubian,
Magma,
Amon Düül,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.