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 India and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Stiv Bators to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Reagan Youth,
Mr. Review,
Anthony Braxton,
Mantronix,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pantaleimon,
Country Teasers,
Iggy Pop,
Todd Rundgren,
Public Enemy,
Freddie Wadling,
Crash Course in Science,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Doors,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bad Manners,
The Buckinghams,
Supertramp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Hardrive,
Mary Jane Girls,
Massinfluence,
Joe Smooth,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pussy Galore,
Section 25,
The Gladiators,
The Evens,
Cameo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Agitation Free,
Yaz,
The Electric Prunes,
Pulsallama,
Vainqueur,
Terrestrial Tones,
Danielle Patucci,
Ornette Coleman,
Glenn Branca,
Q and Not U,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Al Stewart,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eli Mardock,
Outsiders,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
LL Cool J,
Max Romeo,
Tom Boy,
Pere Ubu,
Gang Green,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pole,
Aloha Tigers,
Deadbeat,
Peter & Gordon,
Minor Threat,
8 Eyed Spy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.