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 Andorra and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 The Red Krayola to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Alice Coltrane,
Sam Rivers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Chris & Cosey,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Albert Ayler,
Freddie Wadling,
Minny Pops,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bronski Beat,
Faust,
The Music Machine,
Soulsonic Force,
Graham Central Station,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Morten Harket,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Massinfluence,
World's Most,
Funky Four + One,
Tropical Tobacco,
ABBA,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
John Lydon,
Ralphi Rosario,
H. Thieme,
Audionom,
Zapp,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Deepchord,
Lindisfarne,
Joensuu 1685,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Aural Exciters,
Depeche Mode,
Glambeats Corp.,
Absolute Body Control,
Yazoo,
the Germs,
Masters at Work,
Heaven 17,
Soft Machine,
Metal Thangz,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Infiniti,
FM Einheit,
Roy Ayers,
Average White Band,
CMW,
The Smiths,
Faraquet,
Japan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Scott Walker,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
OOIOO,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lightning Bolt,
Michelle Simonal,
Marc Almond,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.