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 Iceland and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
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 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 Lou Reed 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 The Pop Group to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
ABBA,
Fugazi,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Toasters,
The Leaves,
Half Japanese,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tomorrow,
Swans,
The United States of America,
Aswad,
Jeff Lynne,
Rapeman,
Minor Threat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Godley & Creme,
Nas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Black Sheep,
Section 25,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Essential Logic,
The Index,
Ponytail,
The Wake,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Minny Pops,
The Dave Clark Five,
Depeche Mode,
Model 500,
The Blues Magoos,
Hardrive,
Susan Cadogan,
Scott Walker,
Blake Baxter,
Charles Mingus,
Interpol,
David McCallum,
Goldenarms,
David Axelrod,
New Age Steppers,
10cc,
Roxy Music,
UT,
Q and Not U,
Von Mondo,
Brothers Johnson,
Michelle Simonal,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Gories,
Be Bop Deluxe,
John Coltrane,
Angry Samoans,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rakim,
Shoche,
Adolescents,
Wally Richardson,
Josef K,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.