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 Luxembourg and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Barbara Tucker to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
Oneida,
Echospace,
Main Source,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pagans,
Jacques Brel,
Todd Rundgren,
Animal Collective,
Agitation Free,
The Gun Club,
Skarface,
EPMD,
Fad Gadget,
Babytalk,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Reagan Youth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Magazine,
Gerry Rafferty,
Organ,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
AZ,
K-Klass,
Make Up,
Desert Stars,
Camouflage,
ABBA,
Grandmaster Flash,
MDC,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erasure,
David Axelrod,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Colin Newman,
The Martian,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Max Romeo,
Rakim,
X-101,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dorothy Ashby,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neil Young,
The Vogues,
The Busters,
The United States of America,
Sex Pistols,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Pus,
Ten City,
The Human League,
Index,
Nirvana,
Interpol,
Parry Music,
the Association,
Cymande,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.