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 Greece and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 rhodes 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 Adolescents to the grunge 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Ponytail,
Robert Hood,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Grass Roots,
Whodini,
Black Flag,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eden Ahbez,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Letta Mbulu,
Neil Young,
The Electric Prunes,
Icehouse,
Sparks,
Amon Düül II,
Kayak,
Rotary Connection,
Nas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marmalade,
Delon & Dalcan,
Excepter,
Aaron Thompson,
Fluxion,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Toni Rubio,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Gladiators,
AZ,
Vladislav Delay,
Lyres,
Mantronix,
Grey Daturas,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cybotron,
Mission of Burma,
Alice Coltrane,
The Blues Magoos,
Technova,
Tim Buckley,
Godley & Creme,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacques Brel,
Quantec,
Newcleus,
Adolescents,
Funkadelic,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Tres Demented,
Eve St. Jones,
Groovy Waters,
Faraquet,
Scratch Acid,
Los Fastidios,
Dorothy Ashby,
Shuggie Otis,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Brothers Johnson,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.