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 Tanzania and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Spokane.
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 clarinet 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 Graham Central Station to the grime 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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
The Move,
Arcadia,
Radiopuhelimet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Panda Bear,
Dave Gahan,
Wolf Eyes,
Cameo,
Deepchord,
Das Ding,
Sixth Finger,
Eric Copeland,
Barrington Levy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Popol Vuh,
The Doobie Brothers,
MDC,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Index,
Barbara Tucker,
Lucky Dragons,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ponytail,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eric Dolphy,
The Dirtbombs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mission of Burma,
The Dead C,
Ten City,
The Smiths,
The Golliwogs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hasil Adkins,
Angry Samoans,
The Flesh Eaters,
June Days,
Duran Duran,
New Age Steppers,
Soul II Soul,
David McCallum,
Wire,
Isaac Hayes,
Byron Stingily,
Sound Behaviour,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Derrick May,
Symarip,
The Litter,
Magazine,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tubeway Army,
Jerry's Kids,
Fear,
The Selecter,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.