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 Sierra Leone and from Cairo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 John Holt to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
MC5,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soul II Soul,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pylon,
Magazine,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cluster,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rapeman,
Don Cherry,
Accadde A,
Michelle Simonal,
X-101,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
H. Thieme,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Zeros,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marcia Griffiths,
X-102,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Reed,
AZ,
Slick Rick,
Ludus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Television,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bauhaus,
Excepter,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yaz,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Remains,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Cowsills,
Kerrie Biddell,
Blake Baxter,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eve St. Jones,
Eli Mardock,
Ituana,
Banda Bassotti,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ralphi Rosario,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neil Young,
Ornette Coleman,
Q65,
X-Ray Spex,
the Fania All-Stars,
Skarface,
Stetsasonic,
Moebius,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pulsallama,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.