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 Rwanda and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Kerri Chandler to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
The Fire Engines,
The Evens,
Joe Finger,
Aaron Thompson,
Gil Scott Heron,
Average White Band,
Schoolly D,
Aswad,
Reuben Wilson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tubeway Army,
Technova,
Hoover,
Arcadia,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Soft Machine,
Sam Rivers,
Erasure,
Jandek,
L. Decosne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Gun Club,
Jerry's Kids,
Fad Gadget,
Anthony Braxton,
Colin Newman,
The Slackers,
Jeff Mills,
The Fugs,
Young Marble Giants,
Neil Young,
Piero Umiliani,
Kerri Chandler,
Yazoo,
The Blackbyrds,
Funky Four + One,
Fat Boys,
Negative Approach,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dennis Brown,
The Gories,
Guru Guru,
Kerrie Biddell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Mojo Men,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rakim,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Blancmange,
Sonic Youth,
Darondo,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Carl Craig,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Tres Demented,
Duran Duran,
Royal Trux,
Mr. Review,
Angry Samoans,
K-Klass,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.