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 Bahamas and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Yellowson to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Average White Band,
EPMD,
Ralphi Rosario,
Black Bananas,
Essential Logic,
Al Stewart,
Robert Hood,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tears for Fears,
Avey Tare,
The Golliwogs,
James White and The Blacks,
The Cure,
Ludus,
a-ha,
The Smoke,
Tres Demented,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Colin Newman,
Minny Pops,
Boz Scaggs,
The Sound,
Piero Umiliani,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Popol Vuh,
Franke,
Rod Modell,
Ronan,
Make Up,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lou Reed,
The Zeros,
Half Japanese,
Goldenarms,
The Slackers,
Arcadia,
Nas,
Josef K,
Amazonics,
Bobby Womack,
Main Source,
Talk Talk,
The Star Department,
Fear,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Thompson Twins,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alice Coltrane,
Drive Like Jehu,
Dead Boys,
Public Enemy,
Kenny Larkin,
Roxy Music,
Black Pus,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.