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 Finland 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Chic 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 Radiohead to the funk 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Massinfluence,
Altered Images,
Scan 7,
John Foxx,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ronan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arthur Verocai,
JFA,
Frankie Knuckles,
China Crisis,
The Moody Blues,
The Move,
Popol Vuh,
Barrington Levy,
New Order,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Newcleus,
Loose Ends,
Jeff Lynne,
Soul II Soul,
Fluxion,
Eurythmics,
The Martian,
The Names,
Mark Hollis,
The Barracudas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Idris Muhammad,
MC5,
Shoche,
Lalann,
Young Marble Giants,
Khruangbin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Real Kids,
The United States of America,
The Fugs,
Section 25,
In Retrospect,
Jerry's Kids,
Curtis Mayfield,
One Last Wish,
The Monks,
Pulsallama,
Depeche Mode,
Amon Düül II,
The Birthday Party,
ABC,
Albert Ayler,
The Mummies,
Barry Ungar,
Panda Bear,
The Gories,
Bobby Sherman,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
D'Angelo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Fugazi,
Barbara Tucker,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.