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 Egypt and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer 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 Amon Düül II to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Scrapy,
Absolute Body Control,
The Misunderstood,
the Normal,
Eurythmics,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jeff Lynne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Parry Music,
Alton Ellis,
Metal Thangz,
Essential Logic,
Kool Moe Dee,
AZ,
The Vogues,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Sonics,
Jeff Mills,
Tommy Roe,
Donald Byrd,
Brand Nubian,
Organ,
Tim Buckley,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobby Womack,
The Divine Comedy,
Freddie Wadling,
Surgeon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Infiniti,
ABC,
Y Pants,
The Slackers,
Pere Ubu,
The Gap Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cymande,
Ultimate Spinach,
Funkadelic,
Average White Band,
U.S. Maple,
Ice-T,
Arcadia,
the Human League,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rotary Connection,
Monolake,
Juan Atkins,
Blake Baxter,
Ronan,
the Soft Cell,
Michelle Simonal,
Babytalk,
Wally Richardson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Circle Jerks,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.