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 Argentina and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Astoria.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Men They Couldn't Hang 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Brothers Johnson,
Pierre Henry,
Talk Talk,
Ituana,
Soul II Soul,
Eric Dolphy,
The Martian,
Joe Finger,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
KRS-One,
the Human League,
Rekid,
Unwound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marvin Gaye,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Grass Roots,
Alice Coltrane,
Stockholm Monsters,
Underground Resistance,
Silicon Teens,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Mojo Men,
Shuggie Otis,
Idris Muhammad,
Eve St. Jones,
Terry Callier,
Royal Trux,
Henry Cow,
Agitation Free,
T. Rex,
Marshall Jefferson,
Yazoo,
Connie Case,
Essential Logic,
Drexciya,
Technova,
Todd Rundgren,
Toni Rubio,
Patti Smith,
Ultimate Spinach,
Avey Tare,
Bluetip,
Supertramp,
Agent Orange,
Groovy Waters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lucky Dragons,
Anakelly,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fad Gadget,
Pantaleimon,
Erasure,
The Associates,
Letta Mbulu,
Neil Young,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Young Rascals,
the Fania All-Stars,
Popol Vuh,
Aaron Thompson,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.