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 Bangladesh and from New York.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Technova,
James White and The Blacks,
The Standells,
The Leaves,
Warren Ellis,
Avey Tare,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Johnny Osbourne,
E-Dancer,
The Residents,
The Gap Band,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ice-T,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Blues Magoos,
Magma,
Make Up,
David Bowie,
The Gun Club,
The Evens,
Marc Almond,
Cheater Slicks,
The Techniques,
Theoretical Girls,
Funkadelic,
Anakelly,
Rotary Connection,
Reagan Youth,
Essential Logic,
Fat Boys,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Television,
Sällskapet,
The Cure,
Unwound,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bronski Beat,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fad Gadget,
Pulsallama,
Mr. Review,
Liliput,
Lucky Dragons,
New Order,
Cameo,
Rites of Spring,
Nas,
Yaz,
Joyce Sims,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Von Mondo,
Au Pairs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Reuben Wilson,
Jacob Miller,
Arthur Verocai,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.