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 India and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Associates 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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Gastr Del Sol,
Judy Mowatt,
Delon & Dalcan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Velvet Underground,
R.M.O.,
Symarip,
The American Breed,
Nik Kershaw,
The Gladiators,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crispian St. Peters,
Deadbeat,
Basic Channel,
Stetsasonic,
Black Moon,
The Moody Blues,
Scott Walker,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Slick Rick,
Thompson Twins,
The Gap Band,
Barry Ungar,
Young Marble Giants,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pagans,
Derrick May,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mandrill,
The Alarm Clocks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pierre Henry,
Supertramp,
Ice-T,
The Flesh Eaters,
David Axelrod,
Girls At Our Best!,
Skaos,
Pantytec,
The Shadows of Knight,
Deakin,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Beau Brummels,
the Soft Cell,
Sex Pistols,
Suicide,
Porter Ricks,
Oneida,
Inner City,
The Red Krayola,
Alton Ellis,
Das Ding,
L. Decosne,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Erasure,
Pylon,
Lakeside,
Chris Corsano,
Joey Negro,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.