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 Canada and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 Suicide to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Oblivians,
The New Christs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Seeds,
Aswad,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kool Moe Dee,
Panda Bear,
Los Fastidios,
Brand Nubian,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Faust,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Techniques,
Scientists,
Minutemen,
Motorama,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fat Boys,
Rakim,
Depeche Mode,
The Blackbyrds,
Minor Threat,
Youth Brigade,
Toni Rubio,
The Divine Comedy,
Nils Olav,
Suburban Knight,
ABBA,
Camberwell Now,
Ossler,
Fad Gadget,
Scan 7,
Pagans,
Crime,
Dark Day,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rites of Spring,
Drexciya,
Jawbox,
Sight & Sound,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Interpol,
The Young Rascals,
Chris Corsano,
AZ,
Tubeway Army,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sexual Harrassment,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Robert Görl,
This Heat,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.