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 Palau and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Qualms to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
The Remains,
Amazonics,
The Saints,
Quadrant,
New York Dolls,
JFA,
Freddie Wadling,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jeru the Damaja,
Country Teasers,
Godley & Creme,
Intrusion,
Gregory Isaacs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crash Course in Science,
Moebius,
New Order,
Adolescents,
Anthony Braxton,
Gang Starr,
Marvin Gaye,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Motions,
The Divine Comedy,
Aaron Thompson,
David McCallum,
Al Stewart,
Ken Boothe,
The Five Americans,
The Tremeloes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jacques Brel,
The Monks,
Alison Limerick,
The Standells,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Model 500,
Tommy Roe,
Tom Boy,
Parry Music,
Derrick Morgan,
the Association,
The Busters,
Half Japanese,
New Age Steppers,
Angry Samoans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Litter,
Ice-T,
Ossler,
H. Thieme,
Spoonie Gee,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Con Funk Shun,
Rites of Spring,
the Bar-Kays,
Neil Young,
The Walker Brothers,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.