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 Comoros and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Whodini to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Zeros,
The Pretty Things,
Gil Scott Heron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Tremeloes,
Judy Mowatt,
Qualms,
Davy DMX,
Severed Heads,
Skarface,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jandek,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scientists,
the Swans,
Banda Bassotti,
Kurtis Blow,
Spandau Ballet,
Reuben Wilson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
X-102,
Crime,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bluetip,
Television Personalities,
Curtis Mayfield,
Metal Thangz,
Sam Rivers,
Roxette,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fela Kuti,
The Kinks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Make Up,
Desert Stars,
LL Cool J,
Rufus Thomas,
Parry Music,
The Real Kids,
T.S.O.L.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Moby Grape,
Mandrill,
Pussy Galore,
Spoonie Gee,
Scion,
Infiniti,
Soft Machine,
Donny Hathaway,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Hutcherson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kayak,
Ultimate Spinach,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.