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 Germany and from Woodstock.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 This Heat to the rap 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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Ronnie Foster,
the Association,
The Monks,
Derrick Morgan,
Skarface,
Aloha Tigers,
Mars,
Sonic Youth,
Ponytail,
Frankie Knuckles,
Laurel Aitken,
Easy Going,
the Soft Cell,
Yusef Lateef,
Maurizio,
Todd Terry,
Mad Mike,
Aural Exciters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Dark Day,
Thompson Twins,
the Human League,
Scratch Acid,
The Residents,
Goldenarms,
Duran Duran,
Crash Course in Science,
Letta Mbulu,
The Pretty Things,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Von Mondo,
Sällskapet,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Altered Images,
Kayak,
kango's stein massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hoover,
Ituana,
Surgeon,
Archie Shepp,
New Age Steppers,
Desert Stars,
Max Romeo,
Sexual Harrassment,
Charles Mingus,
The Knickerbockers,
The Smiths,
Man Eating Sloth,
Amon Düül II,
Moss Icon,
The Human League,
Eden Ahbez,
Subhumans,
The Happenings,
The Shadows of Knight,
Deadbeat,
The Standells,
Barry Ungar,
Alphaville,
David Axelrod,
Joe Finger,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.