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 Russia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Schoolly D to the funk 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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flipper record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fuzztones,
Scientists,
LL Cool J,
Cheater Slicks,
Gang of Four,
Tropical Tobacco,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Oneida,
Brand Nubian,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Sound,
Reuben Wilson,
Freddie Wadling,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alphaville,
Mantronix,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
D'Angelo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Echospace,
48th St. Collective,
Saccharine Trust,
Ornette Coleman,
Los Fastidios,
Wally Richardson,
One Last Wish,
Jeff Mills,
the Soft Cell,
U.S. Maple,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Absolute Body Control,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scrapy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Accadde A,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Cure,
Fear,
Peter and Kerry,
B.T. Express,
Man Parrish,
The Doors,
The Mummies,
Jerry's Kids,
Animal Collective,
Mandrill,
Guru Guru,
Pharoah Sanders,
Stiv Bators,
Prince Buster,
Wolf Eyes,
The Raincoats,
kango's stein massive,
Parry Music,
Peter & Gordon,
Basic Channel,
Main Source,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.