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 Cameroon and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 CMW to the grime 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
Aswad,
The Beau Brummels,
Arthur Verocai,
Amon Düül,
Altered Images,
Silicon Teens,
The Detroit Cobras,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joe Finger,
Lower 48,
Marshall Jefferson,
Siglo XX,
Letta Mbulu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Zapp,
Pulsallama,
Marcia Griffiths,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Motorama,
Tubeway Army,
U.S. Maple,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Evens,
The Cure,
Average White Band,
T.S.O.L.,
the Human League,
Stetsasonic,
Jeru the Damaja,
Faust,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Stooges,
Hashim,
Gang of Four,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Eric Dolphy,
ABBA,
Minnie Riperton,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kas Product,
The Dave Clark Five,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Knickerbockers,
The Modern Lovers,
Pylon,
Jacques Brel,
The Move,
Yaz,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Idris Muhammad,
Aural Exciters,
LL Cool J,
The Buckinghams,
The Young Rascals,
Ice-T,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.