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 Albania and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Junior Murvin to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Jeff Mills,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
KRS-One,
Albert Ayler,
Second Layer,
Symarip,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Radiohead,
Mad Mike,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Wally Richardson,
The Star Department,
Das Ding,
One Last Wish,
Gang Green,
The Moleskins,
the Human League,
Danielle Patucci,
The United States of America,
CMW,
The Gun Club,
Alison Limerick,
Crooked Eye,
Camouflage,
Main Source,
Warsaw,
The Young Rascals,
Underground Resistance,
The Motions,
Andrew Hill,
Reuben Wilson,
Lalann,
Matthew Halsall,
Jacques Brel,
Negative Approach,
Au Pairs,
Nik Kershaw,
cv313,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sexual Harrassment,
Skarface,
China Crisis,
Gang Starr,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Chris Corsano,
The Zeros,
Interpol,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Oneida,
John Cale,
Niagra,
Prince Buster,
The Tremeloes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal,
Nils Olav,
Agitation Free,
Deakin,
Zero Boys,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.