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 Indonesia and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gang Green to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Section 25,
Franke,
Glambeats Corp.,
Heaven 17,
Kerri Chandler,
U.S. Maple,
The New Christs,
Joy Division,
Funkadelic,
Panda Bear,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bill Wells,
Gabor Szabo,
Das Ding,
Faraquet,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Roxy Music,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Reuben Wilson,
Bad Manners,
Fluxion,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Isaac Hayes,
The Slits,
Archie Shepp,
Vladislav Delay,
Danielle Patucci,
Sam Rivers,
Rod Modell,
Idris Muhammad,
June Days,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lungfish,
The Dead C,
The Smoke,
Deepchord,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rekid,
Gerry Rafferty,
Khruangbin,
Monolake,
Magazine,
Con Funk Shun,
The Names,
Thompson Twins,
Guru Guru,
Ronnie Foster,
The Litter,
UT,
The Velvet Underground,
Symarip,
Moss Icon,
Donald Byrd,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ultra Naté,
Alphaville,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.