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 Barbados and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 the Association to the crunk 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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Alphaville,
Interpol,
Iggy Pop,
Aswad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Trojans,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Brick,
Marc Almond,
The Golliwogs,
Junior Murvin,
Sound Behaviour,
Black Bananas,
The Angels of Light,
Joe Finger,
Big Daddy Kane,
Vladislav Delay,
The Sonics,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Sonics,
The Toasters,
Erasure,
Aural Exciters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Wasted Youth,
EPMD,
cv313,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
MDC,
the Slits,
New Age Steppers,
UT,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Wolf Eyes,
Joyce Sims,
Soft Cell,
Andrew Hill,
DJ Sneak,
Grey Daturas,
Scientists,
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Delon & Dalcan,
OOIOO,
The Walker Brothers,
The Real Kids,
Jawbox,
Max Romeo,
Bobby Sherman,
Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach.
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.