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 Cyprus and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe 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 EPMD to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Chris Corsano,
Sexual Harrassment,
Rapeman,
Danielle Patucci,
Rotary Connection,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Con Funk Shun,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Monolake,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dual Sessions,
The Mojo Men,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
L. Decosne,
X-102,
Gang Green,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crash Course in Science,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soft Machine,
James Chance & The Contortions,
June of 44,
B.T. Express,
The Blackbyrds,
Tears for Fears,
Scan 7,
Deepchord,
Siglo XX,
Underground Resistance,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Minny Pops,
The Happenings,
Jeff Lynne,
Aaron Thompson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Stereo Dub,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kerri Chandler,
Supertramp,
PIL,
Bobby Hutcherson,
T.S.O.L.,
UT,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scott Walker,
Harry Pussy,
Hasil Adkins,
The Slackers,
John Foxx,
Inner City,
The Black Dice,
The Walker Brothers,
Parry Music,
Bobby Womack,
Intrusion,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Agitation Free,
Stiv Bators,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.