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 Estonia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 marimba 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 Magazine to the punk 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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Bluetip,
Patti Smith,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Symarip,
Todd Rundgren,
Joensuu 1685,
The Grass Roots,
Funkadelic,
Juan Atkins,
Colin Newman,
Sun City Girls,
The Five Americans,
Blake Baxter,
10cc,
Television,
Public Enemy,
Eric Copeland,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Evens,
FM Einheit,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Moleskins,
Nas,
Deadbeat,
Grey Daturas,
Alison Limerick,
The Music Machine,
Cameo,
Gabor Szabo,
Minutemen,
The Shadows of Knight,
Arcadia,
Derrick Morgan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Wake,
Hot Snakes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Birthday Party,
Swell Maps,
Skarface,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Underground Resistance,
Nirvana,
Amon Düül,
The Cure,
Franke,
Soft Machine,
Magma,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sight & Sound,
Roger Hodgson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Echospace,
The Residents,
Wolf Eyes,
Agitation Free,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Junior Murvin,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.