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 East Timor and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Neu! to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Porter Ricks. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Hardrive,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Searchers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Skatalites,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joensuu 1685,
Yusef Lateef,
Scan 7,
Goldenarms,
Marshall Jefferson,
Barbara Tucker,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric Dolphy,
Subhumans,
Lyres,
The Human League,
Moebius,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Janne Schatter,
Nirvana,
Gabor Szabo,
Sparks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joe Finger,
Marine Girls,
Bush Tetras,
Rufus Thomas,
The Flesh Eaters,
Robert Hood,
Eric Copeland,
Funkadelic,
Lower 48,
Rhythm & Sound,
Blake Baxter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Wells,
Aswad,
Blancmange,
June Days,
Tomorrow,
Brothers Johnson,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Porter Ricks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Aloha Tigers,
Warren Ellis,
The Real Kids,
Drive Like Jehu,
Silicon Teens,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Radio Birdman,
The Knickerbockers,
Theoretical Girls,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Music Machine,
Section 25,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.