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 Tonga and from London.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Kerri Chandler to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Drexciya,
Fugazi,
K-Klass,
Second Layer,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Swans,
Amon Düül II,
Michelle Simonal,
Peter & Gordon,
China Crisis,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kaleidoscope,
Supertramp,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Robert Hood,
Fluxion,
Y Pants,
Desert Stars,
Ken Boothe,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Vogues,
The Residents,
Quadrant,
Bobby Womack,
Aaron Thompson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eric Dolphy,
Todd Rundgren,
The Slackers,
The Doors,
The Smiths,
Mission of Burma,
Sonny Sharrock,
ABC,
Nick Fraelich,
Symarip,
Sister Nancy,
Roy Ayers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Excepter,
H. Thieme,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Slits,
The Associates,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scrapy,
Cluster,
Robert Görl,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Blackbyrds,
Ralphi Rosario,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Camberwell Now,
Bobby Sherman,
Soft Cell,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.