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 United Kingdom and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 güiro 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 The Mummies 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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scientists,
Agitation Free,
Interpol,
Alphaville,
Swans,
Suburban Knight,
The Monks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
10cc,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Underground Resistance,
Radiohead,
OOIOO,
Al Stewart,
Country Teasers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Intrusion,
Piero Umiliani,
James White and The Blacks,
Ken Boothe,
Jawbox,
Aloha Tigers,
The Cure,
The Dirtbombs,
The Red Krayola,
Brass Construction,
The Names,
Jacques Brel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fatback Band,
MC5,
Basic Channel,
Goldenarms,
X-Ray Spex,
John Holt,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tres Demented,
Matthew Halsall,
Barry Ungar,
Urselle,
Joey Negro,
Toni Rubio,
The Fuzztones,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Suicide,
Sonic Youth,
Traffic Nightmare,
Black Pus,
Alison Limerick,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Donald Byrd,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Skatalites,
Siglo XX,
Barrington Levy,
Kayak,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.