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 Belize and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk 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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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 Mighty Diamonds,
Scan 7,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Slackers,
B.T. Express,
Ponytail,
Hashim,
Goldenarms,
Soulsonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
A Certain Ratio,
Saccharine Trust,
Darondo,
The Kinks,
Unwound,
Fatback Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang of Four,
Flash Fearless,
Gang Gang Dance,
Visage,
The Five Americans,
The Doors,
Connie Case,
Jawbox,
ABBA,
Big Daddy Kane,
Donny Hathaway,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Grey Daturas,
Mantronix,
Scratch Acid,
Joe Finger,
Gerry Rafferty,
Yazoo,
Eden Ahbez,
The J.B.'s,
Electric Prunes,
Jeff Mills,
The Knickerbockers,
Wally Richardson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Public Enemy,
Aural Exciters,
Parry Music,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sex Pistols,
Tim Buckley,
Country Joe & The Fish,
R.M.O.,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-Ray Spex,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lalo Schifrin,
Matthew Halsall,
Half Japanese,
Funkadelic,
Masters at Work,
Ice-T,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.