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 Mexico and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sandy B to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fear,
Jandek,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Offenders,
World's Most,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Massinfluence,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Pretty Things,
Sun City Girls,
Juan Atkins,
ABC,
The Electric Prunes,
Q and Not U,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Wings,
Infiniti,
Boz Scaggs,
Yusef Lateef,
Nas,
Minutemen,
Prince Buster,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Japan,
Theoretical Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
Joey Negro,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Shoche,
Funky Four + One,
Mars,
The Happenings,
Sexual Harrassment,
Faust,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Flesh Eaters,
MDC,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Con Funk Shun,
Arcadia,
Livin' Joy,
Technova,
Quadrant,
Boredoms,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Count Five,
Mission of Burma,
Half Japanese,
FM Einheit,
Groovy Waters,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Victims,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jeff Mills,
Lucky Dragons,
Section 25,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.