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 Malawi 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 güiro 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the punk 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 Chris Corsano. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Smog,
Sixth Finger,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Human League,
Boredoms,
Colin Newman,
Barrington Levy,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Pretty Things,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mad Mike,
Symarip,
Fluxion,
JFA,
Skarface,
Aswad,
Ohio Players,
The Stooges,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Amon Düül,
In Retrospect,
Monks,
The Leaves,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Zeros,
Stereo Dub,
Howard Jones,
Organ,
Andrew Hill,
Tommy Roe,
The Fire Engines,
Maurizio,
Stiv Bators,
Pole,
Minnie Riperton,
Outsiders,
Tom Boy,
Altered Images,
Donny Hathaway,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Siglo XX,
X-102,
Faust,
Cymande,
Todd Rundgren,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ten City,
Wally Richardson,
Funkadelic,
PIL,
Jeru the Damaja,
Danielle Patucci,
Niagra,
Lyres,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Porter Ricks,
Godley & Creme,
Black Flag,
David Axelrod,
Joy Division,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.