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 United States and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Aural Exciters to the jazz 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Drexciya,
the Bar-Kays,
Television Personalities,
The New Christs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Guru Guru,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eric Dolphy,
Todd Terry,
Carl Craig,
Lakeside,
F. McDonald,
Aswad,
Cheater Slicks,
Eddi Front,
Silicon Teens,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ultra Naté,
Bronski Beat,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Cure,
Easy Going,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Real Kids,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
a-ha,
Gong,
Alison Limerick,
Nico,
The Fugs,
Unwound,
Hasil Adkins,
Jeff Mills,
Marc Almond,
Monolake,
Can,
Y Pants,
Dual Sessions,
Masters at Work,
Black Moon,
Desert Stars,
The Evens,
Don Cherry,
Vladislav Delay,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Mojo Men,
Dorothy Ashby,
Organ,
James White and The Blacks,
Faraquet,
Flash Fearless,
Mad Mike,
Morten Harket,
David Axelrod,
DJ Style,
Chris & Cosey,
Ronnie Foster,
the Association,
Los Fastidios,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.