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 Oman and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Associates to the rap 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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hasil Adkins,
Mary Jane Girls,
Erykah Badu,
Shoche,
Pharoah Sanders,
John Cale,
The Remains,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Con Funk Shun,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sixth Finger,
James White and The Blacks,
Bang On A Can,
Man Parrish,
Unrelated Segments,
The Divine Comedy,
Archie Shepp,
Deepchord,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Groovy Waters,
Index,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stereo Dub,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Nation of Ulysses,
Man Eating Sloth,
Barbara Tucker,
Lee Hazlewood,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
X-Ray Spex,
The Leaves,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Icehouse,
Marine Girls,
Cameo,
Albert Ayler,
Glenn Branca,
Stiv Bators,
Infiniti,
T. Rex,
Oneida,
Technova,
Boz Scaggs,
Severed Heads,
The Count Five,
Scan 7,
D'Angelo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Basic Channel,
Bill Near,
The Detroit Cobras,
Robert Hood,
Symarip,
The Modern Lovers,
the Bar-Kays,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalann,
Soft Cell,
UT,
Gang of Four,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.