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 Korea North and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 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 Kayak to the disco 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Skriet,
Rod Modell,
The Real Kids,
Tom Boy,
Lucky Dragons,
Gang Starr,
Sam Rivers,
Jawbox,
Alice Coltrane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Depeche Mode,
Scientists,
The Smiths,
The Dave Clark Five,
Trumans Water,
Schoolly D,
The Trojans,
Crispy Ambulance,
Dave Gahan,
Motorama,
The Buckinghams,
Jesper Dahlback,
Country Joe & The Fish,
E-Dancer,
Symarip,
Young Marble Giants,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Public Enemy,
Simply Red,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Mills,
Soulsonic Force,
Bobby Sherman,
Black Bananas,
Warren Ellis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
China Crisis,
the Association,
Kool Moe Dee,
Subhumans,
Japan,
Brass Construction,
Magazine,
The Moleskins,
Infiniti,
Crash Course in Science,
Cameo,
Skaos,
June Days,
Interpol,
Minutemen,
These Immortal Souls,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Tremeloes,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Idris Muhammad,
the Human League,
Lee Hazlewood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.