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 Madagascar and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Make Up to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Scott Walker,
Kas Product,
Terrestrial Tones,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kevin Saunderson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Chris Corsano,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Massinfluence,
Funky Four + One,
Lower 48,
Neil Young,
James Chance & The Contortions,
8 Eyed Spy,
E-Dancer,
Bobby Byrd,
Heaven 17,
Henry Cow,
Can,
Ponytail,
Jawbox,
Bobby Womack,
Jerry's Kids,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dave Gahan,
Cheater Slicks,
Wasted Youth,
Nation of Ulysses,
Reuben Wilson,
Robert Wyatt,
Gastr Del Sol,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Morten Harket,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Saccharine Trust,
Wings,
Ultravox,
Arcadia,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hasil Adkins,
Shuggie Otis,
The Mojo Men,
OOIOO,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Groovy Waters,
Flipper,
Donald Byrd,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
K-Klass,
Yazoo,
Hot Snakes,
Surgeon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Derrick May,
Sparks,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dual Sessions,
Faust,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.