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 Egypt and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 synthesizer 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 Roxette to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Spoonie Gee,
Jeff Mills,
Roxette,
Oneida,
Anthony Braxton,
Youth Brigade,
Hashim,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Peter and Kerry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Stereo Dub,
The Detroit Cobras,
Maurizio,
Peter & Gordon,
New Age Steppers,
Todd Rundgren,
Bobby Womack,
The Blackbyrds,
Janne Schatter,
Jeff Lynne,
Slick Rick,
Fatback Band,
The Residents,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Vogues,
Metal Thangz,
Donald Byrd,
Pylon,
Ultravox,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Angels of Light,
Underground Resistance,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sonny Sharrock,
Theoretical Girls,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Evens,
Sixth Finger,
Loose Ends,
The Birthday Party,
Ultra Naté,
Basic Channel,
Flipper,
The Real Kids,
Heaven 17,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Isaac Hayes,
Suicide,
Mars,
Mary Jane Girls,
Glenn Branca,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Television,
Clear Light,
Delon & Dalcan,
Public Enemy,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.