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 Ecuador and from Stockholm.
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 Lille and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 DNA to the crunk 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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slick Rick,
Fad Gadget,
Byron Stingily,
Dual Sessions,
Zero Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dark Day,
The Slackers,
The New Christs,
Gang of Four,
Chris & Cosey,
David Bowie,
Robert Wyatt,
Suburban Knight,
Eve St. Jones,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pantytec,
Fluxion,
Easy Going,
Khruangbin,
The American Breed,
Animal Collective,
Sandy B,
Bobby Sherman,
The Doors,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ludus,
Sister Nancy,
Brass Construction,
The Velvet Underground,
OOIOO,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nas,
Saccharine Trust,
Cameo,
Maurizio,
Laurel Aitken,
H. Thieme,
Ponytail,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Absolute Body Control,
The Saints,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Essential Logic,
Bob Dylan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
ABC,
Avey Tare,
Rotary Connection,
Au Pairs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Supertramp,
Lindisfarne,
Soft Cell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cecil Taylor,
the Soft Cell,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.