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 Vanuatu and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s 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 Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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 Victims,
Delta 5,
Kurtis Blow,
Dark Day,
Barbara Tucker,
Lou Reed,
kango's stein massive,
Echospace,
Magma,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crime,
Judy Mowatt,
Spandau Ballet,
The Motions,
Guru Guru,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nick Fraelich,
Sugar Minott,
Deadbeat,
Q65,
Technova,
Soft Cell,
Patti Smith,
Roger Hodgson,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sparks,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The United States of America,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Wake,
Aloha Tigers,
Procol Harum,
Mission of Burma,
Jacques Brel,
The Misunderstood,
Dave Gahan,
Reuben Wilson,
Agitation Free,
LL Cool J,
UT,
Infiniti,
Grey Daturas,
Fugazi,
Derrick May,
Rites of Spring,
The Happenings,
Andrew Hill,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cymande,
The Human League,
Darondo,
DNA,
Prince Buster,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Symarip,
L. Decosne,
Minnie Riperton,
Brand Nubian,
Marvin Gaye,
Wire,
Crash Course in Science,
Niagra,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.