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 Djibouti and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Funkadelic to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Public Image Ltd.,
Das Ding,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Zapp,
Public Enemy,
Section 25,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tears for Fears,
Masters at Work,
KRS-One,
Thee Headcoats,
Sam Rivers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Neu!,
X-Ray Spex,
Erykah Badu,
Quadrant,
James White and The Blacks,
Warren Ellis,
JFA,
Marvin Gaye,
Alphaville,
Suicide,
Althea and Donna,
the Normal,
Excepter,
Japan,
Letta Mbulu,
Darondo,
Man Eating Sloth,
Little Man,
Sarah Menescal,
New Order,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ice-T,
Yaz,
The Happenings,
U.S. Maple,
Agitation Free,
Quantec,
Cluster,
Technova,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sällskapet,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ornette Coleman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Graham Central Station,
The J.B.'s,
Scrapy,
the Bar-Kays,
Yellowson,
Joey Negro,
Don Cherry,
Brick,
10cc,
Marc Almond,
Oneida,
Amon Düül II,
New York Dolls,
Vladislav Delay,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.